Narrative research has not traditionally examined the intergenerational transmission and reverberation of narratives within ethnic communities, and yet it is through the chain of generations that voices of the past reverberate and testimonies endure which fuel and form present day notions of the past. This article is a call for and an example of the importance ethnographic investigation into communities of memories, for it is through community storytelling that records are set straight as a memorial for victims and survivors. This line of inquiry is pertinent to various communities throughout the world, as we come to see the role of language, and in particular, narrative in the formation of ideas and conflicts, as scholars such as Slyomovics, (1998) have pointed out. This research takes as its point of departure narrative renditions of the Armenian genocide recounted in both public and private venues by the great-grandchildren of genocide survivors in an ethnic enclave in Central California. In this diasporic community we see how communities of memory are formed in a space of mediation which links the new generation with the old, the present with its past as well as with its imagined communities (Anderson, 1983). Through examination of the linguistic reverberations of this historical and familial narrative, I ask what becomes of authorship when collected stories are salient enough to be included in one’s own personal history, and how these narrativizations contribute to one’s sense of self? These questions are answered both by linguistic analysis of pronouns and deixis, as well as through analysis of prevalent themes. The results of this research lend into the historical progression of memory through time by those who did not experience the trauma, but rather were witnesses by listening to the trauma of others.
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Bilali, Rezarta & Johanna Ray Vollhardt
2019. Victim and Perpetrator Groups’ Divergent Perspectives on Collective Violence: Implications for Intergroup Relations. Political Psychology 40:S1 ► pp. 75 ff.
Cantrell, Akiyo M
2017. The management of survivors’ guilt through the construction of a favorable self in Hiroshima survivor narratives. Discourse Studies 19:4 ► pp. 377 ff.
Simon Copeland
2019. By Terrorists' Own Telling: Using Autobiography for Narrative Criminological Research. In The Emerald Handbook of Narrative Criminology, ► pp. 131 ff.
Dalgaard, Nina Thorup & Edith Montgomery
2015. Disclosure and silencing: A systematic review of the literature on patterns of trauma communication in refugee families. Transcultural Psychiatry 52:5 ► pp. 579 ff.
Féron, Élise & Sofiya Voytiv
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Gül Kaya, Duygu
2018. 100 Voices after 100 years: Remembering the Armenian Genocide in diaspora. Popular Communication 16:2 ► pp. 128 ff.
Hankerson, Sidney H., Nathalie Moise, Diane Wilson, Bernadine Y. Waller, Kimberly T. Arnold, Cristiane Duarte, Claudia Lugo-Candelas, Myrna M. Weissman, Milton Wainberg, Rachel Yehuda & Ruth Shim
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Harrison, Neil
2013. Country teaches: The significance of the local in the Australian history curriculum. Australian Journal of Education 57:3 ► pp. 214 ff.
Harrison, Neil, Susan Page & Michelle Finneran
2013. Generative methodology: an inquiry into how a university can acknowledge a commitment to its Aboriginal community. The Australian Educational Researcher 40:3 ► pp. 339 ff.
2018. The politics of memory and commemoration: Armenian diasporic reflections on 2015. Nationalities Papers 46:1 ► pp. 123 ff.
Lee, F. L. F.
2012. Generational Differences in the Impact of Historical Events: The Tiananmen Square Incident in Contemporary Hong Kong Public Opinion. International Journal of Public Opinion Research 24:2 ► pp. 141 ff.
Lehrner, Amy & Rachel Yehuda
2018. Cultural trauma and epigenetic inheritance. Development and Psychopathology 30:5 ► pp. 1763 ff.
McLean, Kate C., Nicole Moriarty, Kaleb Starling & Nic M. Weststrate
2024. Letters from Queer Elders: Transmitting Intergenerational Wisdom in LGBTQ+ Communities. Journal of Homosexuality► pp. 1 ff.
McTighe, John P.
2018. Leaving Home, Finding Home: Narrative Practice with Immigrant Populations. In Narrative Theory in Clinical Social Work Practice [Essential Clinical Social Work Series, ], ► pp. 113 ff.
McTighe, John P.
2023. Die Heimat verlassen, eine Heimat finden: Narrative Praxis mit Zuwanderern. In Narrative Theorie in der Praxis der klinischen Sozialarbeit, ► pp. 133 ff.
Muti, Öndercan & Öykü Gürpınar
2023. “I think it is [the] mother who keeps things going”: The gendered division of labor in the transmission of memory of the Armenian Genocide. Memory Studies 16:5 ► pp. 1173 ff.
Spennemann, Dirk H. R.
2022. The Shifting Baseline Syndrome and Generational Amnesia in Heritage Studies. Heritage 5:3 ► pp. 2007 ff.
Vollhardt, Johanna Ray, J. Christopher Cohrs, Zsolt Péter Szabó, Mikołaj Winiewski, Michelle S. Twali, Eliana Hadjiandreou & Andrew McNeill
2021. The role of comparative victim beliefs in predicting support for hostile versus prosocial intergroup outcomes. European Journal of Social Psychology 51:3 ► pp. 505 ff.
Vollhardt, Johanna Ray, Lucas B. Mazur & Magali Lemahieu
2014. Acknowledgment after mass violence: Effects on psychological well-being and intergroup relations. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations 17:3 ► pp. 306 ff.
Vollhardt, Johanna Ray, Zsolt P. Szabó, Andrew McNeill, Eliana Hadjiandreou & Mikołaj Winiewski
2021. Beyond comparisons: The complexity and context‐dependency of collective victim beliefs. European Journal of Social Psychology 51:7 ► pp. 1138 ff.
Vollhardt, Johanna Ray, Helin Ünal & Rashmi Nair
2023. ‘You don't compare horrors, you just don't do that’: Examining assumptions and extending the scope of comparative victim beliefs. British Journal of Social Psychology 62:1 ► pp. 393 ff.
Yehuda, Rachel & Amy Lehrner
2018. Intergenerational transmission of trauma effects: putative role of epigenetic mechanisms. World Psychiatry 17:3 ► pp. 243 ff.
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