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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Author : Adil Ouatat
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-09-10
Narrate Stories Through Food About Diana Abu Jaber S Novel Crescent written by Adil Ouatat and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-10 with categories.
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, 19
Crescent
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Author : Diana Abu-Jabber
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2004-04-27
Crescent written by Diana Abu-Jabber and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-27 with Fiction categories.
"Abu-Jaber's voluptuous prose features insights into the Arab American community that are wisely, warmly depicted."—San Francisco Chronicle Sirine, the heroine of this "deliciously romantic romp" (Vanity Fair) is thirty-nine, never married, and living in the Arab-American community of Los Angeles. She has a passion for cooking and works contentedly in a Lebanese restaurant, while her storytelling uncle and her saucy boss, Umm Nadia, believe she should be trying harder to find a husband. One day Hanif, a handsome professor of Arabic literature, an Iraqi exile, comes to the restaurant. Sirine falls in love and finds herself questioning everything she thought she knew about Hanif, as well as her own torn identity as an Arab-American.
The Language Of Baklava
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Author : Diana Abu-Jaber
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2007-12-18
The Language Of Baklava written by Diana Abu-Jaber and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Diana Abu-Jaber’s vibrant, humorous memoir weaves together delicious food memories that illuminate the two cultures of her childhood—American and Jordanian. Here are stories of being raised by a food-obsessed Jordanian father and tales of Lake Ontario shish kabob cookouts and goat stew feasts under Bedouin tents in the desert. These sensuously evoked repasts, complete with recipes, paint a loving and complex portrait of Diana’s impractical, displaced immigrant father who, like many an immigrant before him, cooked to remember the place he came from and to pass that connection on to his children. The Language of Baklava irresistibly invites us to sit down at the table with Diana’s family, sharing unforgettable meals that turn out to be as much about “grace, difference, faith, love” as they are about food.
Arab American Women S Writing And Performance
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Author : Somaya Sami Sabry
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2011-04-30
Arab American Women S Writing And Performance written by Somaya Sami Sabry and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
The public image of Arabs in America has been radically affected by the 'war on terror'. But stereotypes of Arabs, manifested for instance in Orientalist representations of Sheherazade and the Arabian Nights in Hollywood, have prevailed for much longer. Here Somaya Sabry argues that the Arab-American experience has been powerfully shaped by racial discourse and Orientalism, and is further complicated today by hostility towards Arabs in post-9/11 America. She shows how Arab-American women writers and performers confront and subvert racial stereotypes in this charged context by recasting representations of Sheherazade. Shedding new light on Arab-American women's negotiations of identity, this book will be indispensable for all those interested in the Arab-American world, American ethnic studies and race, as well as diaspora studies, women's studies, literature, cultural studies and performance studies.
Immigrant Narratives
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Author : Wail S. Hassan
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014-04
Immigrant Narratives written by Wail S. Hassan and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04 with Literary Collections categories.
Drawing upon postcolonial, translation, and minority discourse theory, Immigrant Narratives investigates how key Arab American and Arab British writers have described their immigrant experiences, and in so doing acted as mediators and interpreters between cultures, and how they have forged new identities in their adopted countries.
The Birds Of Paradise
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869
The Birds Of Paradise written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1869 with categories.
Arabian Jazz
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Author : Diana Abu-Jaber
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2003
Arabian Jazz written by Diana Abu-Jaber and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Fiction categories.
Balances are struck in this luminous first novel-between two radically distinct cultures, between obligation and self-will, between past and future, between hilarity and heartbreak-as the Jordanian family of Matussem Ramoud settles in a small, poor-white community in upstate New York.
Arab Voices In Diaspora
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2009-01-01
Arab Voices In Diaspora written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Arab Voices in Diaspora offers a wide-ranging overview and an insightful study of the field of anglophone Arab literature produced across the world. The first of its kind, it chronicles the development of this literature from its inception at the turn of the past century until the post 9/11 era. The book sheds light not only on the historical but also on the cultural and aesthetic value of this literary production, which has so far received little scholarly attention. It also seeks to place anglophone Arab literary works within the larger nomenclature of postcolonial, emerging, and ethnic literature, as it finds that the authors are haunted by the same ‘hybrid’, ‘exilic’, and ‘diasporic’ questions that have dogged their fellow postcolonialists. Issues of belonging, loyalty, and affinity are recognized and dealt with in the various essays, as are the various concerns involved in cultural and relational identification. The contributors to this volume come from different national backgrounds and share in examining the nuances of this emerging literature. Authors discussed include Elmaz Abinader, Diana Abu-Jaber, Leila Aboulela, Leila Ahmed, Rabih Alameddine, Edward Atiyah, Shaw Dallal, Ibrahim Fawal, Fadia Faqir, Khalil Gibran, Suheir Hammad, Loubna Haikal, Nada Awar Jarrar, Jad El Hage, Lawrence Joseph, Mohja Kahf, Jamal Mahjoub, Hisham Matar, Dunya Mikhail, Samia Serageldine, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ameen Rihani, Mona Simpson, Ahdaf Soueif, and Cecile Yazbak. Contributors: Victoria M. Abboud, Diya M. Abdo, Samaa Abdurraqib, Marta Cariello, Carol Fadda–Conrey, Cristina Garrigós, Lamia Hammad, Yasmeen Hanoosh, Waïl S. Hassan, Richard E. Hishmeh, Syrine Hout, Layla Al Maleh, Brinda J. Mehta, Dawn Mirapuri, Geoffrey P. Nash, Boulus Sarru, Fadia Fayez Suyoufie
Aljadid
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Aljadid written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Arab Americans categories.
An Unlasting Home
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Author : Mai Al-Nakib
language : en
Publisher: Saqi Books
Release Date : 2023-04-04
An Unlasting Home written by Mai Al-Nakib and has been published by Saqi Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-04 with Fiction categories.
Sara is a philosophy professor at Kuwait University. Her relationship with Kuwait is complicated; it is a country she recognises less and less. Yet since her return from California after her mother's death, a certain inertia has kept her there. When she is accused of blasphemy – which carries with it the threat of execution – Sara realises she must reconcile her feelings and her place in the world once and for all. Awaiting trial, Sara retraces the past, intent on examining the lives of the women who made her. Interspersed with her narratives are the stories of her grandmothers: beautiful and stubborn Yasmine, who marries the son of the Pasha of Basra and lives to regret it, and Lulwa, born poor in old Kuwait and swept off to India by her wealthy merchant husband; and her two mothers: Noura, who dreams of building a life in America, and her ayah Maria, who leaves her own children behind in Pune to help raise Sara and her brother Karim. Spanning Kuwait, Lebanon, Iraq, India and the United States, An Unlasting Home brings to life the triumphs and failures of three generations of Arab women. At once intimate and sweeping, personal and political, it is an unforgettable family portrait and a spellbinding epic tale.