Ariel M. Sheetrit

A Poetics of Arabic Autobiography (eBook, ePUB)

Between Dissociation and Belonging

• Format: ePub

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 text's distinct strategy for life narrative.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000052435
• Artikelnr.: 58724618

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