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Resistance of Arab-American. Mohja Kahf's poems "E-mails from Scheherazade" as a case study

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Resistance of Arab-American. Mohja Kahf's poems "E-mails from Scheherazade" as a case study

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Essay from the year 2023 in the subject American Studies - Comparative Literature, , language: English, abstract: This paper examines how the contemporary Arab-American poet Mohja Kahf challenges the western and patriarchal interpretations of some Islamic cultural symbols like "Hijab" (the veil). In poems like "Descent in JFK", "Hijab Scene # 7", and "Thawrah Des Odalisques at the Matisse Retrospective", Mohja Kahf offers an interesting counterpoint to challenge hegemonic narratives about Arab-American women rooted in the nineteenth century Orientalist discourse, and foregrounds the paradoxical experience of what it means to be a veiled Arab-American Muslim woman in a non-Muslim country. While this paper focuses on Kahf's use of poetry as a form of resistance, it also rethinks the contemporary history of Arab-American women's stereotypic repertoire.

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The Metaphor of Food in Diana Abu Jaber’s "The Language of Baklava". The Cultural, Anthropological and Rhetorical Perspective on Food Narratives

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Essay in the subject Cultural Studies - Near Eastern Studies, , language: English, abstract: This paper deals with the metaphor of food in Diana Abu Jaber's "The Language of Baklava" that reveals aspects of cultural identity and memory through food and metaphor. The analysis of textual representations of food is based on a theoretical framework that includes a cultural anthropological perspective, as well as a rhetorical perspective. Furthermore, textual analysis is used to examine metaphorical and food narratives in the literature. Food is a powerful universal metaphor. It is associated with our senses, health and emotions besides our basic survival. Terry Eagleton states that food as well as literary works are actually a relationship. Furthermore, food is a central motif in cultural life and its metaphorical existence continuously touches on socio-cultural meanings. The metaphorical manifestation of food can extend the interest of the reader of literature to cultural and social interactions laden with food-related meanings. Sidney Mintz argues that consumption is always conditioned by meaning as well as a form of self-identification and communication. In the same vein, Mary Douglas has identified food as a social code. Many voices and theorists from different disciplines have contributed to the cultural studies of food. Thus, this paper will analyse the textual representations of food from the cultural, anthropological, and rhetorical perspective, and how to employ the textual analysis in order to examine the motif of metaphor and food narratives in literature.

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Narrate stories through food. About Diana Abu Jaber's novel "Crescent"

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Narrate stories through food. About Diana Abu Jaber's novel "Crescent"

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Essay from the year 2018 in the subject American Studies - Literature, Sultan Moulay Sliman University (Faculty of arts), language: English, abstract: Diana Abu Jaber in her novel Crescent uses food as a complex language to communicate love, memory and exile. Food also is a metaphor by which Abu Jaber questions the symbolic boundaries embodied in culture, closes, and ethnicity. Food is a real conservatory of the homeland memories and gives up the possibility to imagine mingled identities and traditions. In the novel, the food stands to use a metaphor that deals with the presence and absence of cultural and familial bands. Furthermore, food builds the act of narration through the actions which come to pass in kitchens; those actions mark the pain of exile and loss as well as the hope of family and community. To put it differently, the kitchen becomes “first things taste” which refers to be a cupboard or a “shrine” (Shihab, 1995). So, Abu Jaber uses food to build space in which the possibilities of peace, love and community that are imagined. Lisa Suhair Majaj in Arab American literature and politics of memory suggests that Nye’s poetry “explores the markers of cross cultural complexity” (Majaj, 1996). From this point, Dina Abu Jaber’s novel tends to discuss the act of cooking and food. The character Aziz who is a poet quotes “let the beauty we love be what we do, there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground” (Jaber, 2004). Carolyn Korsmeyer states that “eating together is a common signal among most peoples for friendship, tierce or celebration” she adds, “Both eating and narrative are cultural practices. When food is treated in fiction therefore, it brings to light the way eating may achieve significance within the tradition the narrative in question addresses or in which it participates” she adds that “the intimacy of eating trust presumed the social equality of those who sit down together, and the shared tastes and pleasures of the table”. (Korsmeyer, 1999) In this vein, food can be analyzed in non-verbal dimension as well as be listed as cultural experience that cannot be readily translated

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Exilic and Diasporan Representation and the Importance of Food in "Crescent" by Diana Abu Jaber

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Exilic and Diasporan Representation and the Importance of Food in "Crescent" by Diana Abu Jaber

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Academic Paper from the year 2023 in the subject American Studies - Comparative Literature, , language: English, abstract: This paper aims to discuss the representation of food in diaspora and exile in linkage to identity within the writing of Arab-American author Diana Abu Jaber's “Crescent”. Food as a cultural trope is discussed in many academic fields such as anthropology, sociology, psychology, cultural studies, and literary criticism. In this view, food is a trope that diasporan writers deploy to negotiate their existence and raise questions about their identity and displacement from the host land. Also, the use of the thematic representation of food that the Arab author, Diana Abu Jaber, includes, aids in discussing the political issues of otherness and self by representing this cultural trope. This paper aims to discuss the representation of food in diaspora and exile in linkage to identity within the writing of Arab-American author Diana Abu Jaber's “Crescent”. Moreover, it is analysed how food is a marker that aids the existence of people in exile.

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Narrate stories through food. About Diana Abu Jaber's novel "Crescent"

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Questioning Identity in Diana Abu Jaber's book "Arabian Jazz"

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Questioning Identity in Diana Abu Jaber's book "Arabian Jazz"

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Literature Review from the year 2023 in the subject American Studies - Comparative Literature, Sultan Moulay Sliman University, language: English, abstract: Diana Abu Jaber is one of the prominent Arab American women writers. This article aims at discussing one of the literary works of Diana Abu Jaber, namely Arabian Jazz, focusing on the theme of identity. In her writings, Diana Abu Jaber deploys the cultural trope to discuss the Arab-American life and issues of belonging to their homeland. Also, Diana tries to focus on the identity theme to negotiate the existence of Arab in the main stream America and how these characters suffer from the duality and how they try to preserve their homeland identity through a hybridization of both identities. In this article the focus will be on the protagonists of the novel Arabia Jazz and how Diana Abu Jaber tries to analyse the protagonists’ identity in a stylistic way.

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Resistance of Arab-American. Mohja Kahf's poems "E-mails from Scheherazade" as a case study

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The Metaphor of Food in Diana Abu Jaber’s "The Language of Baklava". The Cultural, Anthropological and Rhetorical Perspective on Food Narratives

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The Metaphor of Food in Diana Abu Jaber’s "The Language of Baklava". The Cultural, Anthropological and Rhetorical Perspective on Food Narratives

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Narrate stories through food. About Diana Abu Jaber's novel "Crescent"

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Exilic and Diasporan Representation and the Importance of Food in "Crescent" by Diana Abu Jaber

Exilic and Diasporan Representation and the Importance of Food in "Crescent" by Diana Abu Jaber

Narrate stories through food. About Diana Abu Jaber's novel "Crescent"

Narrate stories through food. About Diana Abu Jaber's novel "Crescent"

Questioning Identity in Diana Abu Jaber's book "Arabian Jazz"

Questioning Identity in Diana Abu Jaber's book "Arabian Jazz"

Resistance of Arab-American. Mohja Kahf's poems "E-mails from Scheherazade" as a case study

Resistance of Arab-American. Mohja Kahf's poems "E-mails from Scheherazade" as a case study

The Metaphor of Food in Diana Abu Jaber’s "The Language of Baklava". The Cultural, Anthropological and Rhetorical Perspective on Food Narratives

The Metaphor of Food in Diana Abu Jaber’s "The Language of Baklava". The Cultural, Anthropological and Rhetorical Perspective on Food Narratives

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