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This book explores the developments in Arabic autobiography over the last 40 years. Arab autobiographical discourse remains largely unexplored within Islamic and Middle Eastern literary studies. Now, Valerie Anishchenkova investigates the various modes of cultural identity which have emerged in Arab societies through contemporary autobiography. In the 20th century, there was a distinct shift from straightforward life stories to new forms such as erotic memoirs, postmodernist self-fragmentation, cinematographic self-projection and blogging. Anishchenkova argues that the Arabic autobiographical genre has evolved into a number of mobile and unrestricted narrative tools that authors can use to tell the stories of themselves. It studies works from throughout the Arab world, including Egypt, Iraw, Morocco, Syria and Lebanon. It examines how rapid political and ideological developments in different parts of the Arab world have influenced the eruption of autobiographical experimentation. It focuses on written autobiographies, with considerations of film and digital forms of self-representation.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Autobiographical Identities in Contemporary Arab Culture
• Author: Valerie Anishchenkova
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 248
• EAN: 9780748643400
• ISBN: 0748643400
• ID: 04674663
• Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Weight: 500 g
• Dimensions: 165 × 240 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. July 2014

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