Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2023.2228505
Nayiri Baboudjian Bouchakjian
ABSTRACT In this article, I study the different expressions of grief that I experienced while taking care of my Father who lived with Alzheimer’s for over a decade, in Beirut, Lebanon. As his primary caregiver, I was shocked by the reaction of the medical team who, at times, treated my Father as ‘invisible.’ Drawing on a parallel between Pokr Mher, an Armenian mythological figure, and my Father’s status locked in the house for years, I explore how alienation from friends and family affected him. I stress the caregiver’s significant and under-represented role, possible burnout, and withdrawal from society. In a country entrenched in corruption, and sinking in economic and political malaise, the Beirut Port Blast created an immense wave of collective grief, paralleled and even outweighed by the extracted grief of going through the Alzheimer’s arc. I shed light, too, on the importance of one’s mother tongue in dementia care. Discussing end-of-life matters in one’s own language may carry with it a finality that a second language masks. Finally, in seeking to bequeath meaning to my caregiving journey, I emphasise the role of life writing as a tool of remembering and focusing on the fullness of the forget-fullness journey.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-25DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2023.2226363
Pan Xie, Xiaoxiao Xin
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Pub Date : 2023-06-21DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2023.2225134
P. Kaipainen
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Pub Date : 2023-06-14DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2023.2222340
Natacha Yazbeck
ABSTRACT This essay brings to the fore a condition that afflicts the tongues of those of us attempting to speak: through bearing witness so that history will not forget us, we consume ourselves beyond recognition or repair. Drawing on my interior life as Lebanese, Arab, Arab-American and a former journalist, I make the case that the near-universal framing of ongoing crises in Lebanon as unprecedented enables, and indeed makes necessary, witnessing outside history. This essay makes plain passions and superlatives, endemic to our language as writers in and of English, which amputate the very possibility of a collective. Nowhere is this more at play than in the plethora of first-person witnessing and personal essays following the 4 August 2020 port bombing of Beirut. Ultimately, this essay raises the question of how, and whether it is possible, to speak without consuming the self. As a means of redressing that question, this essay espouses the language of those doing the living, or ‘surviving.’ It does not feature translations. To borrow from Toni Morrison, this essay does not speak for, nor does it speak to. It speaks among.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-07DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2023.2219865
Eman Alasah
{"title":"Individualism, Collectivism, and Identity Politics in Palestinian Life Writing","authors":"Eman Alasah","doi":"10.1080/14484528.2023.2219865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2023.2219865","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43797,"journal":{"name":"Life Writing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42873860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-12DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2023.2204399
Karolína Zlámalová
{"title":"No Longer a ‘Guy’, But a ‘Flaming-Hot Mess of a Queen’: The Role of Language in Contemporary Nonbinary Autobiographical Life Writing","authors":"Karolína Zlámalová","doi":"10.1080/14484528.2023.2204399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2023.2204399","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43797,"journal":{"name":"Life Writing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44235352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-12DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2023.2205547
Saliha Shah
{"title":"‘A Stranger in the City’: Selfhood, Community and Modes of (Un)belonging in Muhammad Iqbal’s Self-Portraitures","authors":"Saliha Shah","doi":"10.1080/14484528.2023.2205547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2023.2205547","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43797,"journal":{"name":"Life Writing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45469583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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