Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts

Disintegrating monads in the autobiographical writing of Sasson Somekh

In his autobiographical works Baghdad, Yesterday (2007) and Life After Baghdad (2008) Sasson Somekh writes his memories of Baghdad and Israel. Somekh acknowledges the complexity of Arab–Israeli realities but repeatedly diverts his gaze from them, constructing instead a monadic li...