Embattled dreamlands : the politics of contesting Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish memory /

Embattled Dreamlands explores the complex relationship between competing national myths, imagined boundaries and local memories in the threefold-contested geography referred to as eastern Turkey, western Armenia or northern Kurdistan. Spatially rooted in the shatter zone of the post-Ottoman and post...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Leupold, David (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, 2020.
Subjects:	Ethnic conflict > Turkey, Eastern. Ethnic groups > Turkey, Eastern. Armenians > Turkey, Eastern. Kurds > Turkey, Eastern. Turks > Turkey, Eastern. Collective memory > Turkey, Eastern. Nationalism > Turkey, Eastern > History. Turkey, Eastern > Ethnic relations. Turkey, Eastern > History.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Fatal Ties : Armenians, Kurds And Turks
Saving the Empire, Killing Its Subjects : Circassian And Armenian Tales
Eternal Histories, Elusive Homelands : Eastern Turkey. Western Armenia. Northern Kurdistan
Mirrored Narratives : Remembering as the Nation
Mnemonic Frontiers, Alien Homelands : The Greater Van Region, The Residing and the Expelled
Entwined Narratives : Remembering Beyond the Nation.