Ariel M. Sheetrit

A Poetics of Arabic Autobiography

Between Dissociation and Belonging

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the poetics of autobiographical masterpieces written by Leila Abouzeid, Hanan al-Shaykh, Samuel Shimon, Abd al-Rahman Munif, Salim Barakat, Mohamed Choukri and Hanna Abu Hanna. Sheetrit offers in-depth literary studies that expose each textâ s distinct strategy for life narrative.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Auto/Biography Studies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 211mm x 2mm
• Gewicht: 100g
• ISBN-13: 9780367258016
• ISBN-10: 0367258013
• Artikelnr.: 58848231

Autorenporträt

Ariel M. Sheetrit (PhD, Harvard, 2007) is a lecturer in modern Arabic literature and Arabic film at the Open University of Israel. She has published many scholarly articles on Arabic autobiography, fiction, women's writing and on Arab film.

Inhaltsangabe

Decentering the Self in Arabic Autobiography
Entwined Voices, Embedded Auto/Biography: Hanan al-Shaykh's My Life is An
Intricate Tale
Engagement and Separation in Leila Abouzeid's Return to Childhood
Self in the City in Abd al-Rahman Munif's Story of a City: A Childhood in
Amman
Inscribing the Self in a Landscape of Rupture: Salim Barakat's The Iron
Grasshopper
Casting the Self through Outcasts: Mohamed Choukri's Streetwise
Personal Myth and Self-Invention: Autobiographer as Ironic Hero in Samuel
Shimon's An Iraqi in Paris
Autobiographer as Auto-ethnographer: Hanna Abu Hanna's The Cloud's Shadow
Conclusions