“Habituation Devours Things”: Radwa Ashour’s Specters and the E(n)strangement of Life-Writing

In Specters, her multi-genre novel-length work of life-writing, Radwa Ashour engages with the Russian Formalist Viktor Shklovsky’s theory of “enstrangement” or “defamiliarization” to explore how history shapes lives and lives shape history. The double-voiced narration and mise-en-abyme structure of...

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Main Author: Andrea, Bernadette (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2014
In: Hawwa
Year: 2014, Volume: 12, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 169-194
Further subjects:B Radwa Ashour Mourid Barghouti Defamiliarization Egypt Granada Palestine Viktor Shklovsky
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