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Book SynopsisArabic Disclosures presents readers with a comparative analysis of Arabic postcolonial autobiographical writing.
In Arabic Disclosures Muhsin J. al-Musawi investigates the genre of autobiography within the modern tradition of Arabic literary writing from the early 1920s to the present. Al-Musawi notes in the introduction that the purpose of this work is not to survey the entirety of autobiographical writing in modern Arabic but rather to apply a rigorously identified set of characteristics and approaches culled from a variety of theoretical studies of the genre to a particular set of autobiographical works in Arabic, selected for their different methodologies, varying historical contexts within which they were conceived and written, and the equally varied lives experienced by the authors involved.
The book begins in the larger context of autobiographical space, where the theories of Bourdieu, Bachelard, Bakhtin, and Lefebvre are laid out, and then co
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“Arabic Disclosures is a comprehensive investigation of the specific genre of autobiography within the modern tradition of Arabic literary writing. No other source exists, whether in Arabic or any other language, that treats the genre of autobiography in modern Arabic with such comprehensive thoroughness and insight.” —Roger Allen, author of An Introduction to Arabic Literature
Table of Contents1. Theorizing Autobiography
2. The Autobiographer in Action
3. The Arab Enlighteners
4. Writing Back: The Autobiographer’s Commitment
5. Women’s Voices / Women’s Journeys
6. Autobiographical Experimentation
7. Autobiographic Novels: An Open Door to a Fictionalized Self-Narrative
8. Autobiographical Space
