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portada Motherhood and Its Ghosts
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2025
Language
English
Pages
142
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
13 x 18 cm
ISBN13
9798893380170

Motherhood and Its Ghosts

Iman Mersal (Autor), Robin Moger (Traductor) (Author) · Harvard Business Review Press · Paperback

Motherhood and Its Ghosts - Iman Mersal (Autor), Robin Moger (Traductor)

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Synopsis "Motherhood and Its Ghosts"

Continuing her investigation into the archive, Iman Mersal sifts through representations of one of history’s most elusive figures—the hidden mother.

No one excluded my mother from our joint portrait. It is before me now and I can see for myself that I was with her, but she is a ghost. The picture is a burden: an assault on, and fabrication of, what I remember. It doesn’t make my mother present; it sharpens my desire to resist, to transcend her ghostliness, to rescue what the picture hides.

Iman Mersal has only one photograph of her mother, who died giving birth at age twenty-seven. But the woman portrayed in it strikes her as very unlike the one in her fleeting childhood memories, in mood, expression, dress. When Mersal has a child of her own decades later, she begins to wonder whether it’s possible to depict a mother with any degree of fidelity. How to represent—in photography, dream, memory, or writing—an individual whose complex inner landscape has suddenly come under threat of looming archetypes? What is hidden in traditional representations of motherhood? What lies outside the narrative in which motherhood “means giving, the melding of two distinct selves, a love unlimited and unconditional”?

Sifting through the archives of motherhood, including journal entries, photographs, and the writings that have informed her own poetic practice, Mersal privileges questions over answers, drifting over arriving, allowing a form of motherhood to exist in these pages unbounded.

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