The Making of the Greek Genocide : : Contested Memories of the Ottoman Greek Catastrophe / / Erik Sjöberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Sjöberg, Erik,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: War and Genocide ; 23
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (266 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 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 Narrative in the Diaspora -- Chapter 6 “Three Genocides, One Recognition” The “Christian Holocaust” -- Conclusion -- Reference List -- Index