How to Mend - Motherhood and Its Ghosts

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title How to Mend - Motherhood and Its Ghosts
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Iman Mersal
By (author) Robin Moger
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:168
Dimensions(mm): Height 146,Width 95
Category/GenreTheory of art
ISBN/Barcode 9783956794254
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Sternberg Press
Imprint Sternberg Press
Publication Date 2 July 2020
Publication Country United States

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 Biography

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