Iman Mersal: Motherhood and its Ghosts/ (Record no. 6394)
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| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 6394 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 260202s9999 xx 000 0 und d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9798893380170 |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Iman Mersal: Motherhood and its Ghosts/ |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Translated by Robin Moger |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Berkeley; |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Transit Books; |
| -- | Kayfa Ta |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2018 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 150p; |
| Dimensions | 18x13cm |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Undelivered Lectures |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 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. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | English |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Artist project |
| 9 (RLIN) | 9169 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Research |
| 9 (RLIN) | 9170 |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Mersal, Iman |
| 9 (RLIN) | 9171 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Visual Arts | SAF Reference Library | SAF Reference Library | N81-390 110.8591 | 6394 | 02/02/2026 | 02/02/2026 | Book |