Shahd Al Shammari, Head above Water: Reflections on Illness, London: Neem Tree Press, 2022, 208 p.
Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: Shahd Al Shammari is a Professor of English Literature at the Gulf University for Science and Technology of Kuwait. She is also a respected non-fictional writer whose books address gender and ability issues, all themes that echo throughout her new book Head above Water: Reflections on Illness. The work is organized in autobiographical style, or what the author describes as a “creative non-fiction” (p. 6). Her story intersects across the spectrum of Kuwait's modern history, migration and disl...
Source: Arabian Humanities
DOI: 10.4000/cy.11329
Author: Marion Breteau
Institution: American University of Kuwait
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4392568262