Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- FIGURES -- 1 REPOSITIONING ARMENIANS IN NEWLY POST-COLONIAL NATION-STATES: LEBANON AND SYRIA, 1945-1946 -- 2 THE HOMELAND DEBATE, REDUX: THE POLITICAL-CULTURAL IMPACT OF THE 1946-1949 REPATRIATION TO SOVIET ARMENIA -- 3 COLD WAR, BOTTOM-UP: THE 1956 CATHOLICOS ELECTION -- 4 MAKING ARMENIANS LEBANESE: THE 1957 ELECTION AND THE ENSUING 1958 CONFLICT -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary
Tsolin Nalbantian explores Armenians' discursive repositioning within the newly independent Lebanese nation-state; the political-cultural impact (in Lebanon as well as Syria) of the 1946-8 repatriation initiative to Soviet Armenia; the 1956 Catholicos election; and the 1957 Lebanese elections and 1958 mini-civil war. What emerges is a post-Genocide Armenian history of - principally - power, renewal and presence, rather than one of loss and absence
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-220) and index
