Head Above Water

Reflections on Illness

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

AvShahd Alshammari

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Head Above Water takes us into a space of intimate conversations on illness and society's stigmatization of disabled bodies. We are invited in to ask the big questions about life, loss, and the place of the other. The narrative builds a bridge that reminds us of common humanity and weaves the threads that tie us all together.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-05-30
Mått129 x 198 x 18 mm
Vikt188 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagBoundless Publishing Group Ltd
ISBN9781911107408
UtmärkelserLong-listed for The Barbellion Prize 2022 (UK)

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Shahd Alshammari has Multiple Sclerosis and is a Kuwaiti-Palestinian author and academic. After gaining her PhD in the UK, she became an Assistant Professor of Literature in Kuwait. Her research interests focus on women with mental illness in literature. Alshammari is especially interested in the concept of hybridity, having been born to a Bedouin father and a Palestinian mother. She is also interested in Disability Studies and the correlation of disability studies with identity in the Arab world, having been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at the age of 18.

“Head Above Water... reflects on what it's like to live with a disability, to experience pain on an almost daily basis but fail to translate it to others, not for lack trying but if you don't live the experience, you will never fully understand it. Whether you have MS, or any other type of disability or chronic pain I think for many this book will strike a chord with you.” —Raya Aljadir, Disability Activist and writer @accessless