Beginning Again
The Boundaries of Self-Invention in Shimon Ballas's Be-Guf Rishon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12179463 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ariel M Sheetrit (0000-0002-5685-4158, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, corresponding author), Ariel Sheetrit (Ben Gurion University of the Negev and the Open University of Israel) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 2-35 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | a/b Auto/Biography Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0898-9575 • E-ISSN: 2151-7290 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08989575.2013.10846816 |
| OpenAlex | W4256004509 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
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
Aesthetics · Art · Biography · Diaspora · Literature · Narrative · Sociology · Gender Studies · German Colonialism and Identity Studies · History · Literature and Cultural Memory · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Psychology
Autobiography & postmodernism
Beginnings
The Limits of Autobiography
An Accented Cinema
Postcolonial Life-Writing
Arab-American Autobiography and the Reinvention of Identity
Reorienting Hebrew Literary History
Borderlands/La Frontera
Exile from Exile
How Our Lives Become Stories
Autobiographics
Postcolonial Blues
Gender, Identity and Place
Narrative Dynamics
Grand Openings and Plain
Cartographies of Diaspora
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |