MERSAL, Iman
How to Mend: Motherhood and Its Ghosts

In How to Mend: On Motherhood and its Ghosts, Iman Mersal navigates a long and winding road, from the only surviving picture of the author has with her mother, to a deep search through what memory, photography, dreams and writing, a search of what is lost between the mainstream and more personal representations of motherhood and its struggles. How to mend the gap between the representation and the real, the photograph and its subject, the self and the other, the mother and her child. 

Iman Mersal is an Egyptian poet and associate professor of Arabic Literature and Middle Eastern Studies in the University of Alberta, Canada. [publisher's note]

Published by Sternberg Press / Kayfa ta, 2019
Design by Julie Peeters
Essays / Literature / Politics