TY - GEN T1 - Remnants : embodied archives of the Armenian Genocide A1 - Semerdjian, Elyse LA - English PP - Stanford, California PB - Stanford University Press YR - 2023 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1350245714 AB - "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"-- OP - 386 CN - DS195.5 .S459 2023 SN - 1503636135 SN - 9781503636132 SN - 9781503630383 SN - 9781503636125 KW - Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923 : Psychological aspects. KW - Armenian Genocide survivors : History. KW - Women genocide survivors : History. KW - Human body : Symbolic aspects. KW - Collective memory : Armenia. KW - Génocide arménien, 1915-1916 : Aspect psychologique. KW - Survivants du génocide arménien : Histoire. KW - Corps humain : Aspect symbolique. KW - Mémoire collective : Arménie. KW - HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire. KW - Women genocide survivors KW - Armenian Genocide survivors KW - Collective memory KW - Human body : Symbolic aspects KW - Psychological aspects KW - Armenia KW - History ER -