How to Mend Motherhood and Its Ghosts

(Paperback)

Available Formats

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

A new narrative of motherhood, moving between of interior and exterior landscapes, woven of diaries, readings, and photographs.

Iman Mersal intricately weaves a new narrative of motherhood, moving between interior and exterior landscapes, diaries, readings, and photographs to question old and current representations of motherhood and the related space of unconditional love, guilt, personal goals, and traditional expectations. What is hidden in narratives of motherhood in fictional and nonfictional texts as well as in photographs

Author Bio

Iman Mersal is an Egyptian poet and Associate Professor of Arabic Literature and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada.