Autobiographical Identities in Contemporary Arab Culture

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Autobiographical Identities in Contemporary Arab Culture is written by Valerie Anishchenkova and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0748643419 (ISBN 10) and 9780748643417 (ISBN 13).

Over the last 40 years, autobiography in Arab societies has moved away from exemplary life narratives and toward more unorthodox techniques such as erotic memoir writing, postmodernist self-fragmentation, cinematographic self-projection and blogging. Valerie Anishchenkova argues that the Arabic autobiographical genre has evolved into a mobile, unrestricted category arming authors with narrative tools to articulate their selfhood. Reading works from Arab nations such as Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, Syria and Lebanon, Anishchenkova connects the century's rapid political and ideological developments to increasing autobiographical experimentation in Arabic works. The immense scope of her study also forces consideration of film and online forms of self-representation and offers a novel theoretical framework to these various modes of autobiographical cultural production.