Remnants : embodied archives of the Armenian Genocide /
"A groundbreaking and profoundly moving exploration of the Armenian genocide, told through the traces left in the memories and on the bodies of its women survivors. Foremost among the images of the Armenian Genocide is the specter of tattooed Islamized Armenian women. Blue tribal tattoos that c...
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Zabel's pen : gender, body snatching, and the Armenian Genocide
- Weaponizing shame : dis-memberment of the Armenian collective body
- Rescuing "kittens" in the desert : the Armenian humanitarian relief effort
- Recovering survivors in Aleppo, replanting bodies in Syria's Armenian colonies
- Changelings and halflings : finding the Armenian buried inside the Islamized child
- Aurora's body, humanitarianism, and the pornography of suffering
- What lies beneath grandma's tattoos? : traumatic memories of inked skin
- Wounded whiteness : branded captives from the Old West to the Ottoman East
- Removing the "brand of shame," rehabilitating Armenian skin
- Counternarratives of tribal tattoos and survivor agency
- If these bones could speak : early Armenian pilgrimages to Dayr al-Zur
- Feeling their way through the desert : affective itineraries of "non-sites of memory"
- Bone memory : community, ritual, and memory work in the Syrian desert
- Epilogue : bone on bone.
