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Seeing for Ourselves

Seeing for Ourselves

by Hajar Press
$29.90 - $29.90
$29.90
$29.90 - $29.90
$29.90

Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
Paperback, 192 pages
9781914221224

 

And Even Stranger Possibilities

 

Reflections on seeing and being seen.

 

Why do we yearn to be seen when we are already far too visible? How do we want to be perceived, and how are we exposed? Could we ever really see for ourselves?

 

In memoir, vignettes, poetry and essays, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan records her observations from the stands at the dizzying circus of being seen and unseen. She surveys the criminalising stadium of civic life, the open-air arenas of family, friendship and grief, the performative pageantry of the public eye and the unclad secrets of the self in solitude, paying attention to what’s on show and what goes undetected.

 

Perhaps the strangest, most exciting possibilities are opened when we surrender to another kind of sight. Submitting to the gaze of the Unseen and the All-Seeing, Manzoor-Khan invites us to close our eyes and discover what it would mean to look with our souls instead.