1st Edition
A Poetics of Arabic Autobiography Between Dissociation and Belonging
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
Biography
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.
