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Corporeal historiographies

by hijadelacoca


(noun, plural; textile field):
Embroidered narratives on the body, where scars, marks, and tissues are transformed into archival records. A method of historiography that departs from grand narratives, favoring intimate and material traces —embroidery, stitching, and bodily lines—as forms of writing. It draws from the cartography of the body as a site of inscription, mapping memories onto the skin, where each textile intervention functions as a sensitive archive. Corporeal historiographies weave personal and collective memories into manuscripts constructed in flesh and fabric.