RT Book
T1 The Historiographic Perversion
A1 Nichanian, Marc 1946-
A2 Anidjar, Gil 1964-
LA English
PP New York, NY
PB Columbia University Press
YR 2009
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/87020761X
AB 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.
CN D13.2 .N541 2009
SN 978-0-231-52162-8
K1 Witnesses
K1 Holocaust Denial
K1 Genocide : Historiography
K1 Historiography : History : 20th century
K1 Massacres : Armenia : History
K1 Genocide
K1 Historiography
K1 Massacres
K1 General European History
K1 History
K1 Regional History
K1 HISTORY / Europe / General
DO 10.7312/nich14908