Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Note on Translation and Transliteration ix
4. A Photograph as Prologue 1
5. Introduction 5
6. PART I Bodies
7. 1 Zabel’s Pen: Gender, Body Snatching, and the Armenian Genocide 27
8. REMNANT 1: “The Dance,” Siamanto 45
9. 2 Weaponizing Shame: Dis-memberment of the Armenian Collective Body 47
10. REMNANT 2: “Armenian Girls inside Arab Homes” 60
11. 3 Rescuing “Kittens” in the Desert: The Armenian Humanitarian Relief Effort 62
12. REMNANT 3: Letter from a Captured Armenian Woman, Keghanush Kuyumdjian 81
13. 4 Recovering Survivors in Aleppo, Replanting Bodies in Syria’s Armenian Colonies 82
14. REMNANT 4: “The Orphan Collection” (Vorpahavak), Armenian National Relief Organization in Constantinople 104
15. 5 “Changelings” and “Halflings”: Finding the Armenian Buried inside the Islamized Child 105
16. REMNANT 5: Aurora on Stage: Survival as Sideshow Act 124
17. 6 Aurora’s Body, Humanitarianism, and the Pornography of Suffering 126
18. PART II Skin
19. 7 What Lies beneath Grandma’s Tattoos? Traumatic Memories of Inked Skin 149
20. REMNANT 6: Statement of Miss Eliza Shahinian 163
21. 8 Wounded Whiteness: Branded Captives 165 from the Old West to the Ottoman East 165
22. REMNANT 7: “The Removal of Tattoos and Carbonic Acid” 183
23. 9 Removing the “Brand of Shame,” Rehabilitating Armenian Skin 184
24. REMNANT 8: “Tattooed Like an Arab,” Serpouhi Tavoukdjian 199
25. 10 Counternarratives of Tribal Tattoos and Survivor Agency 200
26. PART III Bones
27. REMNANT 9: A Lamentation: “In the Deserts of Dayr al-Zur” (Der Zor çöllerinde) 223
28. 11 If These Bones Could Speak: Early Armenian Pilgrimages to Dayr al-Zur 225
29. 12 Feeling Their Way through the Desert: Affective Itineraries of “Non-Sites of Memory” 240
30. 13 Bone Memory: Community, Ritual, and Memory Work in the Syrian Desert 256
31. EPILOGUE Bone on Bone 279
32. Acknowledgments 287
33. Notes 293
34. Bibliography 357
35. Index 371