This book of autobiographical, autoethnographic illness narratives tackles the intersection between cultural and medical illnesses in present-day Lebanon, in relation to topical issues such as queer home, coming of age, dementia, expatriate trauma, and sexual blackmail, among others.
This book of autobiographical, autoethnographic illness narratives tackles the intersection between cultural and medical illnesses in present-day Lebanon, in relation to topical issues such as queer home, coming of age, dementia, expatriate trauma, and sexual blackmail, among others.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Sleiman El Hajj is Assistant Professor of Creative and Journalistic Writing at the Lebanese American University (LAU) in Beirut. He is the recipient of the LAU Faculty Research Excellence Award 2022-2023. His research interests include creative nonfiction, gender studies, narrative constructions of home, queer theory, and Middle Eastern literature.
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Introduction - Theorising Lebano-Pathography: A Biographical Exploration of Medical-Cultural Pathologies 1. Narrating Sexual Blackmail in Lebanon: A Present-Day Pathography 2. No Cure: Illness through a Lebanese Arab Queer Lens 3. On the Vulnerability of Memory and the Power of Storytelling, or How My Grandmothers Made Me a Historian 4. Writing Pretty: On Self-Cannibalism and Disfigured Tongues 5. The Man in the Mirror: Reflections on Dementia Caregiving in Lebanon 6. Truman in Beirut: Journeying Through Fear and Immobility 7. Drink the Sea: Twenty Years of Walking and Falling in Beirut 8. Ta(l)king Back (to) the City-Fragments of Beirut and/in Me 9. Playing Tennis in Beirut: Sisterhood and Transnational Aches 10. Sickness of Separation: Reflections on Expatriation, Repatriation, and Motherhood 11. Scarred Skin and Wiggling Worms: What I Learned from my Eating Disorder 12. Illnesses of Illusion and Disillusionment: From Euphoria to Aporia Conclusion - Countering Self-Erasure: Lebano-Pathography and Future Studies in Auto/Biography
Introduction - Theorising Lebano-Pathography: A Biographical Exploration of Medical-Cultural Pathologies 1. Narrating Sexual Blackmail in Lebanon: A Present-Day Pathography 2. No Cure: Illness through a Lebanese Arab Queer Lens 3. On the Vulnerability of Memory and the Power of Storytelling, or How My Grandmothers Made Me a Historian 4. Writing Pretty: On Self-Cannibalism and Disfigured Tongues 5. The Man in the Mirror: Reflections on Dementia Caregiving in Lebanon 6. Truman in Beirut: Journeying Through Fear and Immobility 7. Drink the Sea: Twenty Years of Walking and Falling in Beirut 8. Ta(l)king Back (to) the City-Fragments of Beirut and/in Me 9. Playing Tennis in Beirut: Sisterhood and Transnational Aches 10. Sickness of Separation: Reflections on Expatriation, Repatriation, and Motherhood 11. Scarred Skin and Wiggling Worms: What I Learned from my Eating Disorder 12. Illnesses of Illusion and Disillusionment: From Euphoria to Aporia Conclusion - Countering Self-Erasure: Lebano-Pathography and Future Studies in Auto/Biography
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