A poetics of Arabic autobiography between dissociation and belonging
"This book examines the poetics of autobiographical masterpieces written in Arabic by Leila Abouzeid, Hanan al-Shaykh, Samuel Shimon, Abd al-Rahman Munif, Salim Barakat, Mohamed Choukri and Hanna Abu Hanna. These are indeed autobiographies, Sheetrit argues, albeit articulating the story of the...
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London ; New York
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2021
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| Schriftenreihe: | Routledge auto/biography studies
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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 Muniff'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