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Overview"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 literary works articulate the life story of each author in ways that undermine the expectation that the ""self""—the ""auto"" of autobiography—would be the dominant narrative focus. Although every autobiography naturally includes and relates to others to one degree or another, these autobiographies tend to foreground other characters, voices, places and texts to the extent that at times it appears as though the autobiographical subject has dropped out of sight, even to the point of raising the question: is this an autobiography? These are indeed autobiographies, Sheetrit argues, albeit articulating the story of the self in unconventional ways. Sheetrit offers in-depth literary studies that expose each text’s distinct strategy for life narrative. Crucial to this book’s approach is the innovative theoretical foundation of relational autobiography that reveals the grounding of the self within the collective—not as symbolic of it. This framework exposes the intersection of the story of the autobiographical subject with the stories of others and the tensions between personal and communal discourse. Relational strategies for self-representation expose a movement between two seemingly opposing desires—the desire to separate and dissociate from others, and the desire to engage and integrate within a particular relationship, community, culture or milieu. This interplay between disentangling and conscious entangling constitutes the leitmotif that unites the studies in this book." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ariel M. SheetritPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.290kg ISBN: 9781032173702ISBN 10: 103217370 Pages: 212 Publication Date: 30 September 2021 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsDecentering 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 ConclusionsReviewsAuthor InformationAriel 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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