Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
ARCHIV ORIENTALNI, cilt.88, sa.3, ss.595-603, 2020 (AHCI)
Taking advantage of the activities prompted by the anniversaries of World War I, history writing engaged with the new directions that the humanities and social sciences were taking. One such direction was to connect with the often-overlooked stories of the voiceless at the margins in order to challenge the more dominant narratives of louder voices. Ego documents and self-testimonies bear the potential to drill holes if not tear down the narratives which feed hostile collective identities. Never has the time been so ripe to use these munitions: We currently live in a world that valorizes witness accounts. These accounts are different from those that have been selectively used for the creation of self-serving national collective memories. This tendency has increased lately due to growing temporal distance.