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Beginning Again: The Boundaries of Self-Invention in Shimon Ballas’s Be-Guf Rishon
- a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
- The Autobiography Society
- Volume 28, Number 1, Summer 2013
- pp. 2-35
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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.