Between Suffering and Resurrection

Abstract

Here I discuss the direct and indirect consequences of the Armenian genocide. I explain how all identity indicators have been destroyed due to the genocide and how the genocide has been placed within the Armenian history. I explain that there are both visible and invisible consequences. One of the invisible consequences is how the Armenian genocide has been placed in a cultural narrative and attached to a sense of Self. It is a narrative about suffering and resurrection in which the pain of the genocide itself has been embodied. This has, as we shall see, consequences on how the diasporic communities envision the outside world, but will also give us an insight on the internal dynamics of the diasporic communities itself. It shows us how resilient identities can be and that, even though they are construed, they can be (paradoxically) both be transgenerational and non-spatial in nature.