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HUMANE : A Radical Reimagining of Grief, Loss and Learning to Live Without

Authors :
Rachelle Bensoussan
Rachelle Bensoussan
Publication Year :
2024

Abstract

Written by a Queer woman of North African and Middle Eastern descent, Human(e) takes a radically non-pathology-based approach to grief and loss. In this intimate and reflective auto-ethnographic book, Bensoussan asserts that grief is a biological imperative; a life-sustaining necessity that is vital to our survival. Human(e) explores how our species has been living with, and metabolizing loss, well before there were licensed professionals and accredited institutions. Bensoussan examines the inadequacy of the idea that grief is normal, as grief goes well beyond the Western-colonial binary of normal and abnormal. Grief is human, and to grieve is to be human. Rachelle seamlessly and beautifully weaves together her vast professional expertise on grief with her own personal lived experiences of loss. Human(e) is a must read for anyone learning to live without.

Details

Language :
English
ISBNs :
9781772585155
Database :
eBook Index
Journal :
HUMANE : A Radical Reimagining of Grief, Loss and Learning to Live Without
Publication Type :
eBook
Accession number :
3988593