ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author addresses the two of her questions, namely the narration of what happened to Anatolian Armenians and how one can talk about 1915 within this narration. She describes the acknowledgement that the narrative structure available in Turkish to communicate the massacres of 1915 contains a very strong naturalized nationalist subtext that subtly marginalizes, normalizes, and legitimates this tragedy. The author provides a new framework for Turkish historiography that gives agency to the experience of minority groups and suggests that the hegemonic nationalist historiography be replaced by it. She also describes how to locate 1915 within this new post-nationalist historiography. Though 1915 is powerful when unmediated, unframed, and unassimilated, once it is located within historiography, its trauma becomes normalized. This has also been evinced in the only other context like 1915, both in terms of the scope of the tragedy as well as its disastrous aftermath, namely the Holocaust.
