A Poetics of Arabic Autobiography: Between Dissociation and Belonging

ISBN-13: 9781032173702 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 212 str.

Ariel M. Sheetrit

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.