In Search of the Local Feminine Self: Reading Shulamith Hareven
Keywords:
Shulamith Hareven, Autobiography, Feminine identity, Local identity, Feminine poeticsAbstract
In 2002 Shulamith Hareven published her perplexing book Many Days, An Autobiography. Throughout her literary career she refused to expose her private life despite the requests of critics and scholars. Therefore it was not surprising that this autobiography, which chronologically outlines her life story through fragments of previously published poems, novels, short stories and essays, undermined the conventional genre.
The article takes a multidisciplinary approach in analyzing Hareven’s unique autobiography within the field of life-story research. It also investigates Hareven’s local feminine poetics, as well as the alternate identities that run through her works (such as “Canaanite”, “Jewish-Sephardic”, and “Levantine”) in which she sought a local feminine identity for herself.
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