Author: Reynolds, Dwight F.; editor:
Title: Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (2001). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, ix,336 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: A Thousand Years of Arabic Autobiography: The Fallacy of Western Origins: Western Reception of Arabic Autobiography; Redefining the Issues, The Origins of Arabic Autobiography: Biographical Traditions: Early Prototypes; Biographical Writing: Literary Genres; Sira (Exemplary Life Story); Tabaqat (Biographical Dictionaries); Tarjama (Biographical Notice);Autobiographical Subgenres; Other Influences; Toward a History of Arabic Autobiography: Historical Clusters; Authorial Motivations; Autobiographical Anxieties; Arabic Autobiography & the Literary Portrayal of the Self: Essentializing the Self: Private Life & Personality in the Memoirs of Ibn Buluggin; Historicizing the Self: Deciphering the Autobiography of Ibn Hajar; Reading for Stylistic Convention in the Autobiography of al-Suyuti; Dreams, Visions & Unseen Voices; Poetry: An Alternative Discourse: Translations; Conclusion: Personality & Self; Literary Conventions; The Status of Arabic Autobiographers as Texts; Into the Twentieth Century; Annotated Guide to Arabic Autobiographical Writings.

Keywords: Arabic Literature, Literary History, Criticism, Arab Autobiography, Autobiographical, , , ,