On Being Woman, Other and Disabled: Navigating Identity
On Being Woman, Other and Disabled: Navigating Identity
Author(s): Shahd AlshammariSubject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Gender Studies, Literary Texts, Semiotics / Semiology, Customs / Folklore, Theoretical Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Social psychology and group interaction, Applied Sociology, Social Theory, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, Health and medicine and law, Victimology, Sociology of Culture, Social Norms / Social Control, Theory of Literature, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Universitatea Petrol-Gaze din Ploieşti
Keywords: personal narrative; disability; shame; identity; Bedouin; women; autoethnography;
Summary/Abstract: This article addresses disability in a Middle Eastern context. It interrogates disability and identity from a Bedouin perspective. The author relays her experiences with a physical disability and society’s stigmatization of different bodies. More often than not, this usually creates psychological traumas and a complex terrain of emotional tensions when dealing with society’s oppression of individuals with disability. The author engages with a discursive discussion of the struggles of navigating spaces of shame, the traumas of stigma, and ultimately healing in finding a voice that is separate from the collective.
Journal: Word and Text, A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics
- Issue Year: VIII/2018
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 37-47
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English