Identity and the culinary diasporic memoir : asserting the arab selfhood through food in ٍSuheir Hammad's drops of this story and Diana Abu Jaber's the language of baklava

Abstract EN

This article spots light on how, through the use of the memoir genre, Diana Abu Jaber and Suheir Hammad purposefully show the complexities of their identities.

It emphasizes how they assert their Arab identity through cooking Arab food within the U.

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landscape.

It also stresses how as contemporary Arab American memoirists, Abu Jaber and Hammad tend to bridge the gap between Eastern and Western worlds, and rely on the journey motif in the search for their identities.

The purpose of this study is to show how, in their culinary diasporic memoirs, the writers enhance the nostalgia of the homeland and remembering of the beautiful sense of Jordan and Palestine, via smell and taste memory.