The Politics of Naming the Armenian Genocide : Language, History and 'Medz Yeghern'.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: Silencing the Name -- Part 1 Language and History -- 1 Yeghern until the Late Nineteenth Century -- 2 Yeghern before and after 1915 -- 3 Medz Yeghern and "Genocide" in Armenia and the Diaspora -- Part 2 Politics and Language -- 4 John Paul II: "From the Depths of the Metz Yeghérn " -- 5 Turkey: "The Denial of the Great Catastrophe" -- 6 United States: "Genocide of the Armenians" and "Meds Yeghern" -- 7 From Uruguay to the United States: On the Words of Recognition -- Conclusion: Unsilencing the Name -- Appendix A: The Meaning of Yeghern in Scholarship -- Appendix B: Yeghern and "Genocide" in Memorial Inscriptions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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