Author: Shahd Alshammari

Dr Shahd Alshammari is Assistant Professor of English at the Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait. She has authored an academic monograph, Literary Madness in British, Postcolonial, and Bedouin Women's Writing (2016). Her latest is a collection of short stories Notes on the Flesh (2017) a biomythography that deals with gender, race and disability in Kuwait.

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Death and Desire in Jeanette Winterson’s “Written on the Body”

Through a Disability Studies lens, Dr Shahd Alshammari discusses Jeanette Winterson’s 1994 novel “Written on the Body” in terms of love and loss and the discovery of the failed and deformed body.

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Author: Shahd Alshammari

Death and Desire in Jeanette Winterson’s “Written on the Body”