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Cultural Memory In Post -1937-1938 Dersim Laments: Reflections On Trauma And Violence ; 1937-1938 Sonrası Dersim Ağıtlarında Kültürel Bellek: Travma Ve Şiddet Yansımaları

Subjects: This study introduces Dersim ağıts as a representation of collective memory of post-1937-1938 Dersim laments. How could collective memories of 1937-1938 take refuge in Dersimlis cultural tools? What can we learn from the ağıts referring to this period? This study shows that there are pre-existing cultural tools (very closely related to their practices of Alevism) that Dersimlis used to keep Dersim 38 experience alive. Even though Dersim events are considered as a muted period; these events of 1937-1938 are not really silenced in the survivors? memories. Seemingly Dersimlis made use of ağıts as a means of communication despite the repression and denial in public space. One can see that through laments survivors transmit the unspeakable stories and share them with listeners. One can decipher the traces of the violence and trauma that are otherwise impossible to articulate in collective memory formed via lamentsA close reading of signs and symbols demonstrates that these means of cultural memory have similar tone; form and context and they act as archival sites of violence and trauma. Ağıts function as a medium that keeps past alive in memory and prevent amnesia about violent past. The trauma is expressed very vividly through ağıts. There seems to be a struggle of Dersimlis to tell their stories in details even if they are too painful and traumatic to remember. Although the operation in Dersim is considered to be an event of collective silence

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