Portraits of Unbelonging : Photographic Journeys Across Borders.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gürsel, Zeynep Devrim.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--History.

Emigration and immigration.

Citizenship--History.

Citizenship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (442 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2026.

Summary:

A profound examination of how photographs can both sever and connect, tracing the paths of Ottoman Armenians across state and family archives.In 1896 the Ottoman sultan issued a decree that allowed Armenians--and only Armenians--to emigrate on the condition that they expatriate and never return to their homeland.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half-title

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Preface

A Note on Names

I. Portraits of Unbelonging

1. Victoria, Born on Board

2. Unfolding Photographs, Looking Together

3. The Boy Who Drew the Map of Fresno

4. The Negative Comes First

Likeness and Longing

II. Holding Nationality

5. Elusive Reforms and the Making of Emigrants

6. The 1896 Decree

7. Exiting Subjecthood, Entering Citizenship

8. The Letter from Lowell

III. Holding Photographs

9. Photographs to Hold Dear

10. Photographs at Hand

11. An Absolutely Apocryphal Photograph

12. The Fragment

IV. Seen by the state

13. Bertillon and Ravachol in Constantinople

14. Special Surveillance across Borders

15. A Police Officer behind the Camera

V. Projects of Belonging

16. The Shape of a Family

17. Acts of Re-membering

18. A Box Full of Longing

19. The Fiancée

20. Learning to Listen

21. Returning and Belonging

22. The Woman Who Saw Herself as a Photograph

VI. Citizenship Papers

23. A Returned Passport

24. Twice Expatriated, Never by Choice

25. Securing Citizenship

26. Classifying the Cartozians

Photographs Dry Faster Than Paper

VII. Citizenship is an Unstable Medium

27. Les clichés sont conservés

28. Belonging Has No Guarantees

29. Expatriation Is to Citizenship as Negative Is to Positive

At Sea

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Back Cover.

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ISBN:

1-5036-4670-X

OCLC:

1592686070