Nancy Arenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 5705448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Arenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Arenberg |
| SIGNATURE | ARENBERG N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arkansas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Contesting Bondage by Judaic Law
Although she is a descendant of Moroccan ancestry, Éliette Abécassis is identified as a seminal French-Jewish author who concentrates on contemporary issues pertaining to the feminine-Jewish condition. In Et te voici permise à tout homme (2011), Abécassis explores the hermetic world of Orthodox-French Jews, with emphasis on the plight of her protagonist, Anna, who endeavours to free herself from a loveless marriage. This essay examines various te…
Silence and anguish
As a seminal French-Jewish author, Éliette Abécassis frequently focuses on Jewish issues pertaining to the feminine condition, with emphasis on women’s rights and liberties. In La Répudiée (first published 2000), she invites the reader to discover the mysterious, hermetic world of Hasidic Jews residing in the sacred city of Jerusalem. Within this patriarchal community, the locus of the narrative concentrates on the plight of the protagonist, Rach…
The Effacement of Jewish Identity in Marlène Amar's La Femme sans tête
Marlène Amar's La Femme sans tête follows the trajectory of a migrant family who flees the Algerian war to settle in Paris. For the fictional family, the emotional trauma of leaving their homeland manifests itself visibly on the surface of the female body. In particular, the older sister's corporeal unity becomes fractured through the hardship of geographical d isplacement. In this fascinating text, Amar focuses on the older sister's metamorphosi…
Maternal Estrangement
Malika Mokeddem’s novel Je dois tout à ton oubli is a haunting work that explores the mother-daughter relationship from a complex perspective, focusing on traumatic amnesia, repressed memories, and family secrets. This essay will concentrate on the estranged relationship between the traditional Algerian mother and the resistant daughter, Selma. As the embodiment of postmodern freedom associated with her generation, Selma rejects the conventional …
Fossilized Memories and Loss in Monique Bosco’s La Femme de Loth
Monique Bosco’s intriguing novel, La Femme de Loth, is a text that explores the obsessive loss of the narrator’s married lover through the repetition of the moment of abandonment. As a Jewish transnational writer, Bosco uses the biblical story of Lot’s wife as a compelling archetype to direct the reader’s focus to the narrator’s memories, which are indelibly etched in the past. This article will focus on petrified memories and the loss of self th…
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Fossilized Memories and Loss in Monique Bosco’s La Femme de Loth
Monique Bosco’s intriguing novel, La Femme de Loth, is a text that explores the obsessive loss of the narrator’s married lover through the repetition of the moment of abandonment. As a Jewish transnational writer, Bosco uses the biblical story of Lot’s wife as a compelling archetype to direct the reader’s focus to the narrator’s memories, which are indelibly etched in the past. This article will focus on petrified memories and the loss of self th…
The Effacement of Jewish Identity in Marlène Amar's La Femme sans tête
Marlène Amar's La Femme sans tête follows the trajectory of a migrant family who flees the Algerian war to settle in Paris. For the fictional family, the emotional trauma of leaving their homeland manifests itself visibly on the surface of the female body. In particular, the older sister's corporeal unity becomes fractured through the hardship of geographical d isplacement. In this fascinating text, Amar focuses on the older sister's metamorphosi…
Maternal Estrangement
Malika Mokeddem’s novel Je dois tout à ton oubli is a haunting work that explores the mother-daughter relationship from a complex perspective, focusing on traumatic amnesia, repressed memories, and family secrets. This essay will concentrate on the estranged relationship between the traditional Algerian mother and the resistant daughter, Selma. As the embodiment of postmodern freedom associated with her generation, Selma rejects the conventional …
Silence and anguish
As a seminal French-Jewish author, Éliette Abécassis frequently focuses on Jewish issues pertaining to the feminine condition, with emphasis on women’s rights and liberties. In La Répudiée (first published 2000), she invites the reader to discover the mysterious, hermetic world of Hasidic Jews residing in the sacred city of Jerusalem. Within this patriarchal community, the locus of the narrative concentrates on the plight of the protagonist, Rach…
Contesting Bondage by Judaic Law
Although she is a descendant of Moroccan ancestry, Éliette Abécassis is identified as a seminal French-Jewish author who concentrates on contemporary issues pertaining to the feminine-Jewish condition. In Et te voici permise à tout homme (2011), Abécassis explores the hermetic world of Orthodox-French Jews, with emphasis on the plight of her protagonist, Anna, who endeavours to free herself from a loveless marriage. This essay examines various te…
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