Lives in Fragments

Eren Yıldırım Yetkin is based at the Catholic University of Applied Social Sciences, Berlin, and is an Advisory Board Member of the Research Committee 38 Biography and Society of the International Sociological Association. His publications include his doctoral thesis – Violence and Genocide in Kurdish Memory: Exploring the Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide through Life Stories (2022) – and a co-authored monograph, Jugendliche Erinnerungspraktiken: Methodenplurale Forschung zur Auseinandersetzung mit Geschichte und Gegenwart (Verlag Barbara Budric,2025).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsBiographies in Genocide: An IntroductionEren Yıldırım Yetkin, Nazan Maksudyan, and Adnan ÇelikPart I: Methodological Questions on Biography, History, and MemoryChapter 1. Methodological Questions on the Intersection of Biography and MemoryLena Inowlocki and Eren Yıldırım YetkinChapter 2. Biographical Approaches to the Study of the Armenian GenocideNazan MaksudyanPart II: Lives in GenocideForeword to Part IIFatma Müge GöçekChapter 3. The Library and the Survivor: Writing in Exile after the Armenian GenocideBoris AdjemianChapter 4. A Biographical Approach to Genocidal Ruination: Knowledge, Nature and Dispossesion in Johannes Jakob Manissadjian’s (1862–1942) LifeworkNazan MaksudyanChapter 5. Sahak II Khapayan (1849–1939), Catholicos of Cilicia, as a Witness to Massacres and GenocideBedross Der MatossianChapter 6. Remembering the Survivors by Name: From Angora to Philadelphia, the Perpetual Exile of Sourpik Tekian (1868–1957)Talin Suciyan and Paul Vartan SookiasianChapter 7. Reviving the Past: Post-Genocide Armenian Memory through Song, Dance, and PhotographyVahe TachjianPart III: Afterlives of Violence and GenocideForeword to Part III: Reconsidering “Biography” under Conditions of Genocide: A PrologueYael NavaroChapter 8. Dönme, Dönek, Double: On the (Epistemologically Troubling) Figure of the Islamized ArmenianAlice von BiebersteinChapter 9. “The Truth is Bitter!” The Armenian Genocide in the Memoirs of Kurdish IntellectualsAdnan ÇelikChapter 10. Investigating a Genocidal Literary Style. Analysis of the Memoirs of Young Turk LeadersDuygu TasalpChapter 11. The Escape Route through Dersim. Remembering the Passage from Death to Life in Armenian Refugee NarrativesAnnika TörneChapter 12. The Specter of the Armenian Genocide in a Family from Van. On Racialization, Gendered Narratives, and Intergenerational TransmissionEren Yıldırım YetkinEpilogue: Traumatic, Multidirectional, Implicated: Life Stories in the Wake of GenocideMichael RothbergIndex