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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792728703321

Autore

Sjoberg Erik

Titolo

The making of the Greek genocide : contested memories of the Ottoman Greek catastrophe / / Erik Sjoberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn, , 2017

ISBN

1-78920-063-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 pages)

Collana

War and genocide ; ; volume 23

Disciplina

304.6/6308980561

Soggetti

Greeks - Turkey - Politics and government - 20th century

Greeks - Turkey - History - 20th century

Greeks - Turkey - Ethnic identity

Genocide - Turkey - History - 20th century

Collective memory - Greece

Turkey Politics and government 1909-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Cosmopolitan memory and the Greek genocide narrative -- Ottoman twilight: the background in Anatolia -- "Right to memory": from catastrophe to the politics of identity -- Nationalizing genocide: the recognition process in Greece -- The pain of others: empathy and the problematic comparison -- Becoming cosmopolitan: the Americanized genocide -- "Three genocides, one recognition": the "Christian holocaust" -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

During and after World War I, over one million Ottoman Greeks were expelled from Turkey, a watershed moment in Greek history that resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths. And while few dispute the expulsion’s tragic scope, it remains the subject of fierce controversy, as activists have fought for international recognition of an atrocity they consider comparable to the Armenian genocide. This book provides a much-needed analysis of the Greek genocide as cultural trauma. Neither taking the genocide narrative for granted nor dismissing it outright, Erik Sjöberg instead recounts how it emerged as a meaningful but contested collective memory with both nationalist and cosmopolitan dimensions.