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Cycles of genocide, stories of denial : Atom Egoyan's Ararat

Frieze, Donna-Lee 2009, Cycles of genocide, stories of denial : Atom Egoyan's Ararat, Genocide studies and prevention, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 243-262.

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Title Cycles of genocide, stories of denial : Atom Egoyan's Ararat
Author(s) Frieze, Donna-Lee
Journal name Genocide studies and prevention
Volume number 3
Issue number 2
Start page 243
End page 262
Publisher University of Toronto Press, Journals Division
Place of publication Toronto, Ont.
Publication date 2009-08
ISSN 1911-0359
1911-9933
Summary This article focuses on Atom Egoyan's Ararat and explores how, through a convoluted narrative structure, Egoyan grapples with denial of the Armenian Genocide and the consequences of those denials for present generations—both Turkish and Armenian—illuminated in the film as an extension of the genocide. Egoyan uses a film-within-a-film to move beyond a popular definition of genocide as mass killing alone and links the understanding of stories, truths, and perspectives in everyday life to the dehumanizing acts of genocide. Employing the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas’ ethical theory of the Other (the ethical) and philosophical understandings of ontology (dehumanization) to illuminate the genocide and its ongoing denial, this article contends that Egoyan's focus on the generations of genocide survivors points to the ethical responsibility to one another that underlies everyday lives and sits at the heart of what is absent in the acts of genocide.
Language eng
Field of Research 190204 Film and Television
220404 Jewish Studies
Socio Economic Objective 890402 Film and Video Services (excl. Animation and Computer Generated Imagery)
HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice ©2008, Genocide Studies and Prevention
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30024750

Document type: Journal Article
Collection: School of History, Heritage and Society
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