The Historiographic Perversion
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The Historiographic Perversion

  1. English
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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 27 Jan |Learn more

The Historiographic Perversion

About this book

Genocide is a matter of law. It is also a matter of history. Engaging some of the most disturbing responses to the Armenian genocide, Marc Nichanian strikingly reveals the complex role played by law and history in making this and other genocides endure as contentious events.

Nichanian's book argues that both law and history fail to contend with the very nature of events for which there is no archive (no documents, no witnesses). Both history and law fail to address the modern reality that events can be—and are now being—perpetrated that depend upon the destruction of the archive, turning monstrous deeds into nonevents. Genocide, this book makes us see, is in one sense the destruction of the archive. It relies on the historiographic perversion.

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Table of contents

  1. CoverĀ 
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. ContentsĀ 
  7. Introduction: The Names and the Archive
  8. 1. The Law and the Fact: The 1994 Campaign
  9. 2. Between Amputation and Imputation
  10. 3: Refutation
  11. 4. Testimony: From Document to Monument
  12. Conclusion: Shame and Testimony
  13. Against History: Gil Anidjar
  14. Notes
  15. Index