An Armenian Mediterranean

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This book rethinks the Armenian people as significant actors in the context of Mediterranean and global history. Spanning a millennium of cross-cultural interaction and exchange across the Mediterranean world, essays move between connected histories, frontier studies, comparative literature, and discussions of trauma, memory, diaspora, and visual culture. Contributors dismantle narrow, national ways of understanding Armenian literature; propose new frameworks for mapping the post-Ottoman Mediterranean world; and navigate the challenges of writing national history in a globalized age. A century after the Armenian genocide, this book reimagines the borders of the “Armenian,” pointing to a fresh vision for the field of Armenian studies that is omnivorously comparative, deeply interconnected, and rich with possibility. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi Introduction: A Movable Armenia (Michael Pifer)....Pages 1-10 Front Matter ....Pages 11-11 The Age of the Gharīb: Strangers in the Medieval Mediterranean (Michael Pifer)....Pages 13-37 Past the Mediterranean and Iran: A Comparative Study of Armenia as an Islamic Frontier, First/Seventh to Fifth/Eleventh Centuries (Alison Vacca)....Pages 39-57 A Fish Out of Water? Armenia(ns) and the Mediterranean (Sergio La Porta)....Pages 59-77 Front Matter ....Pages 79-79 From “Autonomous” to “Interactive” Histories: World History’s Challenge to Armenian Studies (Sebouh David Aslanian)....Pages 81-125 Mapping Jerusalem: Re-reading the City in the Context of the Medieval Mediterranean (Tamar M. Boyadjian)....Pages 127-148 Front Matter ....Pages 149-149 Between Anatolia and the Balkans: Tracing Armenians in a Post-Ottoman Order (Hakem Al-Rustom)....Pages 151-171 Armeno-Turkish Writing and the Question of Hybridity (Murat Cankara)....Pages 173-191 Wandering Minstrels, Moving Novels: The Case of Khach‘atur Abovean’s Wounds of Armenia (Vahram Danielyan)....Pages 193-204 Front Matter ....Pages 205-205 Weaving Images: Textile, Displacement, and Reframing the Borders of Visual Culture (Marie-Aude Baronian)....Pages 207-219 Diasporic Flânerie: From Armenian Ruinenlust to Armenia’s Walkscapes (David Kazanjian)....Pages 221-246 Spaces of Difference, Spaces of Belonging: Negotiating Armenianness in Lebanon and France (Vahe Sahakyan)....Pages 247-267 Front Matter ....Pages 269-269 Contemporary Armenian Drama and World Literature (Myrna Douzjian)....Pages 271-285 How to Write the History of the Third Republic or How Not to Write It (G. J. Libaridian)....Pages 287-306 Front Matter ....Pages 307-307 The Mediterranean Is Armenian (Karla Mallette)....Pages 309-321 Back Matter ....Pages 323-337