The making of the Greek genocide : contested memories of the Ottoman Greek catastrophe
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The making of the Greek genocide : contested memories of the Ottoman Greek catastrophe
（War and genocide / general editor, Omer Bartov）
Berghahn, 2019, c2017
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-250) and index
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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 Sjoeberg instead recounts how it emerged as a meaningful but contested collective memory with both nationalist and cosmopolitan dimensions.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
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Introduction: Cosmopolitan memory and the Greek genocide narrative
Chapter 1. Ottoman twilight: The background in Anatolia
Chapter 2. "Right to Memory": From Catastrophe to the politics of identity
Chapter 3. Nationalizing genocide: The recognition process in Greece
Chapter 4. The pain of Others: Empathy and the problematic comparison
Chapter 5. Becoming cosmopolitan: The Americanized genocide
Chapter 6. "Three genocides, one recognition": The "Christian Holocaust"
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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