Ariel M Sheetrit
Biographic Data
| ID | 5898147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ariel M Sheetrit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ariel M |
| FAMILY NAME | Sheetrit |
| SIGNATURE | SHEETRIT A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5685-4158 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
From Weddings as Resistance to Resistance to Weddings
This study focuses on two films in which weddings are conspicuously absent, Villa Touma (Suha Arraf, 2014) and In Between ( Bar Bahr , Maysaloun Hamoud, 2016). Both films have a distinct focus on weddings: they are mentioned repeatedly—whether with longing or loathing, occasionally rendered in the films’ hazy perimeters, in ways that mark them as unsubstantial, inane and infecund, but most often they are occasions that end up not happening, non-d…
A Poetics of Arabic Autobiography
This book examines the poetics of autobiographical masterpieces written in Arabic by Leila Abouzeid, Hanan al-Shaykh, Samuel Shimon, Abd al-Rahman Munif, Salim Barakat, Mohamed Choukri and Hanna Abu Hanna. These literary works articulate the life story of each author in ways that undermine the expectation that the "self"—the "auto" of autobiography—would be the dominant narrative focus. Although every autobiography naturally includes and relates …
Adversary as protagonist
This study examines three Palestinian works, Hanna Ibrahim’s short story “Infiltrators,” (1954), Mahmoud Shukair’s short story “Mordechai’s Moustache and His Wife’s Cat” (2004) and Ibtisam Azem’s The Book of Disappearance (2014). Remarkably, each features a Jewish Israeli as a central character in the story; more intriguing, in each, the story is mediated through the perspective of that character – focalized by him or her. I address the significa…
Nadia Yaqub. Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution . Austin, Tex
Politics and Palestinian literature in exile
Joseph Farag’s Politics and Palestinian Literature in Exile offers analyses and close readings of short stories by five eminent Palestinian authors: Samira Azzam; Ghassan Kanafani; Yahya Yakhlif; L
Iterations of loss
Narrative Strategies of Self-Definition and Voice in Leila Abouzeid’s Return to Childhood
This article presents an analysis of the Moroccan writer Leila Abouzeid’s Rujuʿ ila al-tufula (1993; Return to Childhood: The Memoir of a Modern Moroccan Woman, 1998) through the prism of relational theories of autobiography. It exposes narrative strategies of voice and language to bring out the autobiographical subject’s struggle to identify with and against authority figures while forging her own voice. It highlights Abouzeid’s mother’s powerfu…
Social Alienation and Estrangement in Four Stories by Palestinian Writer c Alā Ḥlayḥal
This article examines the novella al-Sīrk (2001) and three short stories (ʿZawjī Sā'iq Bāṣ', 2008, ‘Tacāyush’, 2008 and ‘al-Sajjāda’, 2003) by contemporary Palestinian writer cAlā Ḥlayḥal (Ala Hlehel). These texts manifest a preoccupation with the breakdown of human relationships and related themes of failed communication and miscommunication between people. These themes articulate the alienation, isolation and estrangement of individuals from on…
Beginning Again
This article considers Shimon Ballas' 2009 autobiography Be-Guf Rishon in light of theories of selfhood in diaspora and border-crossings. It argues that the text's hybrid stance and multiple ruptures are articulated through a language of beginnings, and as such, this analysis engages theories of beginnings and origins in narrative
The Poetics of the Poet’s Autobiography
This article offers a literary reading of Palestinian poet Fadwā Ṭūqān’s autobiography, Riḥlah ṣaʿbah, riḥlah jabaliyyah ( A Mountainous Journey , 1985). This text’s literary complexities have not yet been adequately addressed, despite the critical attention it has received. The present study maps this text’s central tension, namely, that on the one hand, it is populated by many characters and contains many voices, and on the other, that most of …
Two Lives Enmeshed
Journal Article Two Lives Enmeshed: Disentangling Genre and Identity in Hanan al-Shaykh's Hikayati Sharhun Yatul / My Life: An Extended Commentary Get access Ariel M. Sheetrit Ariel M. Sheetrit Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 5, Issue 2, July 2011, Pages 143–160, https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpq016 Published: 01 July 2011
The Geography of Identity
This study treats the masterpiece Sīrat madīna: ʿAmmān fī ’l-arbaʿīnāt (1994; translated into English as Story of a City: A Childhood in Amman, 1996) by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Munīf. I read it through its unconventional and original formal and aesthetic choices in which the story of the city and the protagonist are narrated relationally in terms of each other. The goal of the present study is to deconstruct its multifaceted relational strategies, pinpoin…
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The Geography of Identity
This study treats the masterpiece Sīrat madīna: ʿAmmān fī ’l-arbaʿīnāt (1994; translated into English as Story of a City: A Childhood in Amman, 1996) by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Munīf. I read it through its unconventional and original formal and aesthetic choices in which the story of the city and the protagonist are narrated relationally in terms of each other. The goal of the present study is to deconstruct its multifaceted relational strategies, pinpoin…
Two Lives Enmeshed
Journal Article Two Lives Enmeshed: Disentangling Genre and Identity in Hanan al-Shaykh's Hikayati Sharhun Yatul / My Life: An Extended Commentary Get access Ariel M. Sheetrit Ariel M. Sheetrit Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 5, Issue 2, July 2011, Pages 143–160, https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpq016 Published: 01 July 2011
The Poetics of the Poet’s Autobiography
This article offers a literary reading of Palestinian poet Fadwā Ṭūqān’s autobiography, Riḥlah ṣaʿbah, riḥlah jabaliyyah ( A Mountainous Journey , 1985). This text’s literary complexities have not yet been adequately addressed, despite the critical attention it has received. The present study maps this text’s central tension, namely, that on the one hand, it is populated by many characters and contains many voices, and on the other, that most of …
Beginning Again
This article considers Shimon Ballas' 2009 autobiography Be-Guf Rishon in light of theories of selfhood in diaspora and border-crossings. It argues that the text's hybrid stance and multiple ruptures are articulated through a language of beginnings, and as such, this analysis engages theories of beginnings and origins in narrative
Narrative Strategies of Self-Definition and Voice in Leila Abouzeid’s Return to Childhood
This article presents an analysis of the Moroccan writer Leila Abouzeid’s Rujuʿ ila al-tufula (1993; Return to Childhood: The Memoir of a Modern Moroccan Woman, 1998) through the prism of relational theories of autobiography. It exposes narrative strategies of voice and language to bring out the autobiographical subject’s struggle to identify with and against authority figures while forging her own voice. It highlights Abouzeid’s mother’s powerfu…
Social Alienation and Estrangement in Four Stories by Palestinian Writer c Alā Ḥlayḥal
This article examines the novella al-Sīrk (2001) and three short stories (ʿZawjī Sā'iq Bāṣ', 2008, ‘Tacāyush’, 2008 and ‘al-Sajjāda’, 2003) by contemporary Palestinian writer cAlā Ḥlayḥal (Ala Hlehel). These texts manifest a preoccupation with the breakdown of human relationships and related themes of failed communication and miscommunication between people. These themes articulate the alienation, isolation and estrangement of individuals from on…
Iterations of loss
Politics and Palestinian literature in exile
Joseph Farag’s Politics and Palestinian Literature in Exile offers analyses and close readings of short stories by five eminent Palestinian authors: Samira Azzam; Ghassan Kanafani; Yahya Yakhlif; L
A Poetics of Arabic Autobiography
This book examines the poetics of autobiographical masterpieces written in Arabic by Leila Abouzeid, Hanan al-Shaykh, Samuel Shimon, Abd al-Rahman Munif, Salim Barakat, Mohamed Choukri and Hanna Abu Hanna. These literary works articulate the life story of each author in ways that undermine the expectation that the "self"—the "auto" of autobiography—would be the dominant narrative focus. Although every autobiography naturally includes and relates …
Adversary as protagonist
This study examines three Palestinian works, Hanna Ibrahim’s short story “Infiltrators,” (1954), Mahmoud Shukair’s short story “Mordechai’s Moustache and His Wife’s Cat” (2004) and Ibtisam Azem’s The Book of Disappearance (2014). Remarkably, each features a Jewish Israeli as a central character in the story; more intriguing, in each, the story is mediated through the perspective of that character – focalized by him or her. I address the significa…
Nadia Yaqub. Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution . Austin, Tex
From Weddings as Resistance to Resistance to Weddings
This study focuses on two films in which weddings are conspicuously absent, Villa Touma (Suha Arraf, 2014) and In Between ( Bar Bahr , Maysaloun Hamoud, 2016). Both films have a distinct focus on weddings: they are mentioned repeatedly—whether with longing or loathing, occasionally rendered in the films’ hazy perimeters, in ways that mark them as unsubstantial, inane and infecund, but most often they are occasions that end up not happening, non-d…
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