L’invention d’un homeland arménien en Éthiopie. Exil et sédentarité dans l’écriture d’une mémoire d’hôtes en diaspora
This article analyses the idealization of Ethiopia as a homeland in the memory of Armenian immigrants and their descendants in the 20th Century. The aim of such a work is to restore the logic of the sedentary to diaspora studies, paying attention to the many different...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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ENS Éditions
2012-11-01
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| Series: | Tracés |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/traces/5546 |
| Summary: | This article analyses the idealization of Ethiopia as a homeland in the memory of Armenian immigrants and their descendants in the 20th Century. The aim of such a work is to restore the logic of the sedentary to diaspora studies, paying attention to the many different ways people root socially and politically in the place where they live. Beside the mainstream of researches and analyses about memory in the Armenian diaspora, where the memory of exile appears as a heritage of the traumatisms provoked by forced migrations, the Armenian Great Narrative in Ethiopia reveals a host memory, in which the usual themes of the lost fatherland and genocide are far from being dominating. As a metaphor of the rooting into the country of adoption, the theme of the Ethiopian kings’ friendship for Armenian immigrants and their families leads to an unusual rewriting of the past which doesn’t seem in accordance with classical diaspora categories. Not only local contexts might explain those differences, but also the often underestimated influence of public and contemporary discourses on the making of the collective memory and its politicization. |
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| ISSN: | 1763-0061 1963-1812 |