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Lives in Fragments

Self-Narrative Sources and Biographical Approaches to the Armenian Genocide
Buch | Hardcover
322 Seiten
2026
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-83695-333-3 (ISBN)
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An examination of life stories that were fragmented and shattered through the historical violence of the Armenian genocide. Offers a nuanced understanding of genocide’s complex historical and social dimensions, and reflects on the history and memory of genocidal violence. 
The lens of life stories allows us to identify contested memories and counter-narratives, thus offering new ways of interpreting the social dynamics that led to acts of genocidal violence and their remembrance, yet also to their denial.  Lives in Fragments focuses on life stories that were fragmented and shattered through the historical violence of the Armenian genocide, and offers a nuanced understanding of genocide’s complex historical and social dimensions. Diverse ego-documents and self-narrative sources become subject of analysis in chapters that investigate the historiography and remembrance of the Armenian genocide. By drawing attention to biographical trajectories and manifestations, Lives in Fragments reflects on the history and memory of genocidal violence. 

Eren Yıldırım Yetkin is based at the Catholic University of Applied Social Sciences, Berlin, and is an Advisory Board Member of the Research Committee 38 Biography and Society of the International Sociological Association. His publications include his doctoral thesis – Violence and Genocide in Kurdish Memory: Exploring the Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide through Life Stories (2022) – and a co-authored monograph, Jugendliche Erinnerungspraktiken: Methodenplurale Forschung zur Auseinandersetzung mit Geschichte und Gegenwart (Verlag Barbara Budric,2025).

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments



Biographies in Genocide: An Introduction

Eren Yıldırım Yetkin, Nazan Maksudyan, and Adnan Çelik



Part I: Methodological Questions on Biography, History, and Memory



Chapter 1. Methodological Questions on the Intersection of Biography and Memory

Lena Inowlocki and Eren Yıldırım Yetkin



Chapter 2. Biographical Approaches to the Study of the Armenian Genocide

Nazan Maksudyan



Part II: Lives in Genocide



Foreword to Part II

Fatma Müge Göçek



Chapter 3. The Library and the Survivor: Writing in Exile after the Armenian Genocide

Boris Adjemian



Chapter 4. A Biographical Approach to Genocidal Ruination: Knowledge, Nature and Dispossesion in Johannes Jakob Manissadjian’s (1862–1942) Lifework

Nazan Maksudyan



Chapter 5. Sahak II Khapayan (1849–1939), Catholicos of Cilicia, as a Witness to Massacres and Genocide

Bedross Der Matossian



Chapter 6. Remembering the Survivors by Name: From Angora to Philadelphia, the Perpetual Exile of Sourpik Tekian (1868–1957)

Talin Suciyan and Paul Vartan Sookiasian



Chapter 7. Reviving the Past: Post-Genocide Armenian Memory through Song, Dance, and Photography

Vahe Tachjian



Part III: Afterlives of Violence and Genocide



Foreword to Part III: Reconsidering “Biography” under Conditions of Genocide: A Prologue

Yael Navaro



Chapter 8. Dönme, Dönek, Double: On the (Epistemologically Troubling) Figure of the Islamized Armenian

Alice von Bieberstein



Chapter 9. “The Truth is Bitter!” The Armenian Genocide in the Memoirs of Kurdish Intellectuals

Adnan Çelik



Chapter 10. Investigating a Genocidal Literary Style. Analysis of the Memoirs of Young Turk Leaders

Duygu Tasalp



Chapter 11. The Escape Route through Dersim. Remembering the Passage from Death to Life in Armenian Refugee Narratives

Annika Törne



Chapter 12. The Specter of the Armenian Genocide in a Family from Van. On Racialization, Gendered Narratives, and Intergenerational Transmission

Eren Yıldırım Yetkin



Epilogue: Traumatic, Multidirectional, Implicated: Life Stories in the Wake of Genocide

Michael Rothberg



Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.2.2026
Reihe/Serie New Directions in Turkish Studies ; 4
Zusatzinfo Bibliography; Index
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
ISBN-10 1-83695-333-X / 183695333X
ISBN-13 978-1-83695-333-3 / 9781836953333
Zustand Neuware
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