Remnants : embodied archives of the Armenian Genocide / Elyse Semerdjian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Semerdjian, Elyse, author.

Contributor:

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923--Psychological aspects.

Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923.

Armenian Genocide survivors--History.

Armenian Genocide survivors.

Women genocide survivors--History.

Women genocide survivors.

Human body--Symbolic aspects.

Human body.

Collective memory--Armenia.

Collective memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 386 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 21, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Semerdjian, Elyse. Remnants

ISBN:

9781503636132

1503636135

Publisher Number:

99994471674

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.