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The Burrnesha Archive

The Burrnesha Archive

Isla Badenoch
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The Burrnesha Archive is a project that investigates the memory of a vanishing cultural tradition in Northern Albania. The Burrnesha are women who have sworn a life-long oath of chastity to “become” men, taking on the appearance of a man, entitled to the same rights as a man and socially accepted in Albanian culture as men. However, the existence of the Burrnesha only survives in traces, erased during an extreme Communist regime between 1945-1991. Since the fall of Communism, few Burrnesha remain as the oath is no longer relevant in today's context. The Burrnesha Archive, is a record of three Burrnesha interviewed in Northern Albania in 2016. It is a 200-page novel that acts as an archive for 3 individuals’ collective memories and their inevitable connection to the complicated recent history of Albania. The factual novel is a chaotic fragmented narrative that explores the unstable nature of trying to communicate the memory of a vanishing culture during a period of extreme Communism.

The Burrnesha Archive

Isla Badenoch
3/5 ( ratings)
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The Burrnesha Archive is a project that investigates the memory of a vanishing cultural tradition in Northern Albania. The Burrnesha are women who have sworn a life-long oath of chastity to “become” men, taking on the appearance of a man, entitled to the same rights as a man and socially accepted in Albanian culture as men. However, the existence of the Burrnesha only survives in traces, erased during an extreme Communist regime between 1945-1991. Since the fall of Communism, few Burrnesha remain as the oath is no longer relevant in today's context. The Burrnesha Archive, is a record of three Burrnesha interviewed in Northern Albania in 2016. It is a 200-page novel that acts as an archive for 3 individuals’ collective memories and their inevitable connection to the complicated recent history of Albania. The factual novel is a chaotic fragmented narrative that explores the unstable nature of trying to communicate the memory of a vanishing culture during a period of extreme Communism.

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