Self-Portrait as Ruth

By Jasmine Donahaye

Rooted in a Jewish family history that reaches into 19th-century Ottoman Palestine, "Self-Portrait as Ruth" is written in defiance of all official versions of Israeli or Palestinian history. A challenging, aching, honest exploration of culpability, this lament will incite controversy and debate. These poems are interrogations of the first-person possessive of claims, both singular and plural, to land, to identity, to history, and to the body and of wounds and victimization, both unique and collective."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 191040909X
• ISBN13: 9781910409091
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Parthian
• Length: 60 Pages