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Freedman presents the Middle East conflict as we've rarely seen it, through the eyes of an ambivalent wife and mother brought back to Israel (she had spent time there when she was younger) by her husband's academic posting. She now has the time and inclination to see the country's strife through fresh eyes.
- ↑ "This Shelf Belongs To.... Ariela Freedman". Drawn & Quarterly . 2019-04-01. Archived from the original on 2020-09-21. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
She has a Ph.D. from New York University and teaches literature at Concordia's Liberal Arts College in Montreal, where she lives with her husband and two sons.
- ↑ Karen Herland (2008-01-31). "Class Action". Concordia Journal . Archived from the original on 2020-06-17. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
Freedman herself graduated from the Liberal Arts College and earned a PhD in English from New York University studying English Modernism. She is now principal of the college. 'We both end up teaching outside of our own discipline. I only spend two weeks teaching authors I really write about.'
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In five chapters, she explores the sacrificial male figure in key works by Thomas Hardy, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Ford Maddox Ford, Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield.
- ↑ Danielle Barkley (Spring 2019). "On Not Being Found". Montreal Review of Books . Archived from the original on 2020-10-29. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
What gives Freedman's novel such a haunting power is the willingness to withhold a fixed and complete narrative, and allow finding to exist as an imperfect triumph.
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In this lecture, Ariela Freedman looks at the poetics of literary testimony in three examples: Charlotte Salomon's artwork a clef Leben? Oder Theatre? Anna Molnar Hegedus' memoir, As the Lilacs Bloomed, and the doubled testimonial of Molly Applebaum's wartime diary and her retrospective memoir, Buried Words.
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