Ariela Freedman is a professor at Concordia University, and author of several books.[1][2]
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Freedman was born in Brooklyn, earned her Bachelor's degree at Concordia, returned to New York to earn her PhD at New York University.[3] She would become the Principal of Concordia's College of Liberal Arts.
Her 2014 book, "Death, Men, and Modernism: Trauma and Narrative in British Fiction from Hardy to Woolf", was a book of literary criticism.[4] Her book focussed on Thomas Hardy, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Ford Maddox Ford, Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield.[5]
Her 2017 book, Arabic for Beginners, was a novel, in spite of the name - an account of woman who joined her husband in Israel, and found a friendship with a Palestinian woman, which triggered her to learn Arabic.[1]
The Montreal Review of Books described her 2019 book, A Joy to be Hidden, as showing "haunting power".[6] The book's hero comes of age in grad school, in New York City, in the 1990s.
Freedman has given public lectures on authors who have written about the holocaust, like Molly Applebaum.[7][8]
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Mark Sampson (2017-09-21). "Arabic for Beginners: by Ariela Freedman". Quill & Quire. Archived from the original on 2020-09-19. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
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.
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"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.
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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.'
- ^ Ariela Freedman (2014). "Death, Men, and Modernism: Trauma and Narrative in British Fiction from Hardy to Woolf". Routledge. ISBN 9781135383725. Archived from the original on 2020-10-29. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
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Wendy O’Brien (2014). "Death, Men, and Modernism: Trauma and Narrative in British Fiction from Hardy to Woolf". Cercles. Archived from the original on 2020-07-16. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
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.
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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.
- ^ "Sexual Violence and Holocaust Testimony: A Case Study of Buried Words: The Diary of Molly Applebaum". 2018-10-15. Archived from the original on 2020-10-29. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
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"Strange Work : Literary Testimony in Holocaust Narrative public lecture-SJ". University of New Brunswick. 2019-11-28. Archived from the original on 2020-10-29. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
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.