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A House in the Homeland - Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory (Paperback)
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A House in the Homeland - Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory (Paperback)
Series: Worlding the Middle East
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A powerful examination of soulful journeys made to recover memory
and recuperate stolen pasts in the face of unspeakable histories.
Survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 took refuge across the
globe. Traumatized by unspeakable brutalities, the idea of
returning to their homeland was unthinkable. But decades later,
some children and grandchildren felt compelled to travel back,
having heard stories of family wholeness in beloved homes and of
cherished ancestral towns and villages once in Ottoman Armenia,
today in the Republic of Turkey. Hoping to satisfy spiritual
yearnings, this new generation called themselves pilgrims—and
their journeys, pilgrimages. Carel Bertram joined scores of these
pilgrims on over a dozen pilgrimages, and amassed accounts from
hundreds more who made these journeys. In telling their stories, A
House in the Homeland documents how pilgrims encountered the
ancestral house, village, or town as both real and metaphorical
centerpieces of family history. Bertram recounts the moving,
restorative connections pilgrims made, and illuminates how the
ancestral house, as a spiritual place, offers an opening to a
wellspring of humanity in sites that might otherwise be defined
solely by tragic loss. As an exploration of the powerful links
between memory and place, house and homeland, rupture and
continuity, these Armenian stories reflect the resilience of
diaspora in the face of the savage reaches of trauma, separation,
and exile in ways that each of us, whatever our history, can
recognize.
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