{"product_id":"remnants-embodied-archives-of-the-armenian-genocide-hardback-9781503630383","title":"Remnants; Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide (Hardback) 9781503630383","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRemnants\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEmbodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eElyse Semerdjian (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503630383\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 August 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e398 pages, 49 halftones, 1 map\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.636 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRemnants\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich cultural history of the Armenian Genocide and a powerful investigation of patriarchal assault on the female body. An original work with broad meaning for all histories of mass violence and genocide, and their traumatic aftermaths.\"—Peter Balakian, author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Dog of Fate\u003c\/i\u003e \"Elyse Semerdjian has authored a brilliant book. \u003ci\u003eRemnants\u003c\/i\u003e is at once powerful, moving, engaging, and convincing. Its turn to bodies and voices, remnants and fragments—away from the traditional archive—restores the stories of those most silenced and forgotten, and shows how gender is pivotal to genocidal thinking. A real tour de force.\"—Beth Baron, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Orphan Scandal\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eRemnants\u003c\/i\u003e is the book we've all been waiting for—breathtaking plot, methodological novelty without any accompanying conceit, theoretically and factually grounded. Elyse Semerdjian's work will prove regenerative in the best possible way.\"—Lerna Ekmekcioglu, author of \u003ci\u003eRecovering Armenia\u003c\/i\u003e \"A very ethical book, demonstrating to all of us how one can recover a violent past with professionalism and grace instead of rhetoric and partisanship. \u003ci\u003eRemnants\u003c\/i\u003e recovers and gives agency to women who were silenced in history.\"—Fatma Muge Gocek author of \u003ci\u003eDenial of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForemost 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 \u003ci\u003eRemnants\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Zabel's Pen: Gender, Body Snatching, and the Armenian Genocide\u003cbr\u003e  2. Weaponizing Shame: Dis-memberment of the Armenian Collective Body\u003cbr\u003e  3. Rescuing \"\u003cbr\u003eKittens\"\u003cbr\u003e in the Desert: The Armenian Humanitarian Relief Effort\u003cbr\u003e  4. Recovering Survivors in Aleppo, Replanting Bodies in Syria's Armenian Colonies\u003cbr\u003e  5. \"\u003cbr\u003eChangelings\"\u003cbr\u003e and \"\u003cbr\u003eHalflings\"\u003cbr\u003e: Finding the Armenian Buried inside the Islamized Child\u003cbr\u003e  6. Aurora's Body, Humanitarianism, and the Pornography of Suffering\u003cbr\u003e  7. What Lies beneath Grandma's Tattoos? Traumatic Memories of Inked Skin\u003cbr\u003e  8. Wounded Whiteness: Branded Captives from the Old West to the Ottoman East\u003cbr\u003e  9. Removing the \"\u003cbr\u003eBrand of Shame,\"\u003cbr\u003e Rehabilitating Armenian Skin\u003cbr\u003e  10. Counternarratives of Tribal Tattoos and Survivor Agency\u003cbr\u003e  11. If These Bones Could Speak: Early Armenian Pilgrimages to Dayr al-Zur\u003cbr\u003e  12. Feeling Their Way through the Desert: Affective Itineraries of \"\u003cbr\u003eNon-Sites of Memory\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  13. 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