Shahd Alshammari has Multiple Sclerosis and is a Kuwaiti-Palestinian author and academic. After gaining her Ph D 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.
5 Ebooks de Shahd Alshammari
Shahd Alshammari: Literary Madness in British, Postcolonial, and Bedouin Women’s Writing
This book considers the ways in which madness has been portrayed in writing by women writers. It readdresses the madwoman trope, opening up multiple sites of literary madness, examining places and sp …
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€86.03
Shadee Abdi & Bernadette Marie Calafell: De-Whitening Intersectionality
De-Whitening Intersectionality: Race, Intercultural Communication, and Politics re-evaluates how the logic of color-blindness as whiteness is at play in the current scope of intersectional research o …
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€185.32
Shahd Alshammari: Head above Water
This lyrical hybrid memoir revisits a lifetime’s worth of personal journals to slowly piece together a narrative of chronic illness—a moving account of survival, memory, loss, and hope. Shahd Alshamm …
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€17.99
Emanuela Buscemi & Shahd Alshammari: Gulf Women’s Lives
This edited volume investigates how Gulf women negotiate spaces of dissent through their writing. The focus on women’s narratives offers critical perspectives on how women in the Gulf construct thems …
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€114.99
Shahd Alshammari & Emanuela Buscemi: Gulf Women’s Lives
This edited volume investigates how Gulf women negotiate spaces of dissent through their writing. The focus on women’s narratives offers critical perspectives on how women in the Gulf construct thems …
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€107.80
