Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide

A groundbreaking and profoundly moving exploration of the Armenian genocide, told through the traces left in the...
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Author: Elyse Semerdjian
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Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide by Semerdjian, Elyse

Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide

¥8,187

Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide

¥8,187
Author: Elyse Semerdjian
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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 covered face and body signified assimilation into Muslim Bedouin and Kurdish households. Among Armenians, the tattooed survivor was seen as a living ethnomartyr or, alternatively, a national stain, and the bodies of women and children figured centrally within the Armenian communal memory and humanitarian imaginary. In Remnants, these tattooed and scar-bearing bodies reveal a larger history, as the lived trauma of genocide is understood through bodies, skin, and--in what remains of those lives a century afterward--bones.

With this book, Elyse Semerdjian offers a feminist reading of the Armenian Genocide. She explores how the Ottoman Armenian communal body was dis-membered, disfigured, and later re-membered by the survivor community. Gathering individual memories and archival fragments, she writes a deeply personal history, and issues a call to break open the archival record in order to embrace affect and memory. Traces of women and children rescued during and after the war are reconstructed to center the quietest voices in the historical record. This daring work embraces physical and archival remnants, the imprinted negatives of once living bodies, as a space of radical possibility within Armenian prosthetic memory and a necessary way to recognize the absence that remains.



Author: Elyse Semerdjian
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 08/15/2023
Pages: 398
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.98w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9781503636125

About the Author
Elyse Semerdjian is Professor of Islamic World/Middle East History at Whitman College. She is the author of "Off the Straight Path" Illicit Sex, Law, and Community in Ottoman Aleppo (2008).

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