A House in the Homeland - Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Worlding the Middle East
Release date:	April 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Carel Bertram
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	312
ISBN-13:	978-1-5036-3164-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Other warfare & defence issues > War crimes > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	1-5036-3164-8
Barcode:	9781503631649

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