The Historiographic Perversion
Marc Nichanian
August, 2009
Cloth, 216 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14908-2
$29.50
/ £20.50
Introduction: The Names and the Archive
1. The Law and the Fact: The 1994 Campaign
2. Between Amputation and Imputation
3. Refutation
4. Testimony: From Document to Monument
Conclusion: Shame and Testimony
Against History, by Gil Anidjar
Notes
Index
Related Subjects
About the Author
Marc Nichanian is a philosopher and literary critic who has taught in the United States, France, Italy, Turkey, and Armenia. He is the author of a history of the Armenian language and of a multivolume study of modern Armenian literature entitled Entre l'art et le témoignage, volume 1 of which, Writers of Disaster (The National Revolution) appeared in English in 2002. He is also the editor of Gam: A Journal of Analysis (written in Armenian). Six volumes were published between 1980 and 2005.
Gil Anidjar teaches in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures and in the Department of Religion at Columbia University.
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