An Armenian Mediterranean
Words and Worlds in Motion
Editors: Babayan, Kathryn, Pifer, Michael (Eds.)
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- Appeals to scholars of comparative literature, global history, Mediterranean studies, Armenian studies, and medieval history
- Draws from and contributes to a wide array of comparative and theoretical frameworks, including world history, world literature, and Mediterranean studies
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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Kathryn Babayan is Associate Professor of Iranian History and Culture and Director of the Armenian Studies Program at the University of Michigan, USA.
Michael Pifer is Lecturer in Armenian Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, USA.
- Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Introduction: A Movable Armenia
Pages 1-10
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The Age of the Gharīb: Strangers in the Medieval Mediterranean
Pages 13-37
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Past the Mediterranean and Iran: A Comparative Study of Armenia as an Islamic Frontier, First/Seventh to Fifth/Eleventh Centuries
Pages 39-57
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A Fish Out of Water? Armenia(ns) and the Mediterranean
Pages 59-77
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From “Autonomous” to “Interactive” Histories: World History’s Challenge to Armenian Studies
Pages 81-125
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- An Armenian Mediterranean
- Book Subtitle
- Words and Worlds in Motion
- Editors
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- Kathryn Babayan
- Michael Pifer
- Series Title
- Mediterranean Perspectives
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-72865-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-72865-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-72864-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-10280-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXI, 337
- Number of Illustrations
- 9 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
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