Lebano-Pathography (eBook, PDF)

Converging Pathologies and Lived Narratives Since August 4, 2020
Redaktion: El Hajj, Sleiman

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040113097
• Artikelnr.: 70884746

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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