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Remnants
Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide
Elyse Semerdjian

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Contents
1 Zabel's Pen: Gender, Body Snatching, and the Armenian Genocide
2 Weaponizing Shame: Dis-memberment of the Armenian Collective Body
3 Rescuing "Kittens" in the Desert: The Armenian Humanitarian Relief Effort
4 Recovering Survivors in Aleppo, Replanting Bodies in Syria's Armenian Colonies
5 "Changelings" and "Halflings": Finding the Armenian Buried inside the Islamized Child
6 Aurora's Body, Humanitarianism, and the Pornography of Suffering
7 What Lies beneath Grandma's Tattoos? Traumatic Memories of Inked Skin
8 Wounded Whiteness: Branded Captives from the Old West to the Ottoman East
9 Removing the "Brand of Shame," Rehabilitating Armenian Skin
10 Counternarratives of Tribal Tattoos and Survivor Agency
11 If These Bones Could Speak: Early Armenian Pilgrimages to Dayr al-Zur
12 Feeling Their Way through the Desert: Affective Itineraries of "Non-Sites of Memory"
13 Bone Memory: Community, Ritual, and Memory Work in the Syrian Desert