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Journal articles on the topic "Diana Abu-Jaber"

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Berglind, Natalie. "Silverworld by Diana Abu-Jaber." Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 73, no. 7 (2020): 292. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bcc.2020.0152.

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Jaber, Salsabeel Jamal Said. "The Dynamics of Hybridity in Diana Abu Jaber's The Language of Baklava and Life Without a Recipe." International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation 4, no. 6 (June 29, 2021): 07–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2021.4.6.2.

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This study explores the portrayal of hybridity in Diana Abu Jaber's two memoirs, The Language of Baklava (2005) and Life without a Recipe (2016). Many researchers have dealt with the cultural issues that are portrayed in Diana Abu Jaber's novels, especially Crescent (2003) and Arabian Jazz (1993). This study is distinguished from previous studies by focusing on the cultural aspects that are portrayed in Abu Jaber's two memoirs. The main concern of this study is to shed light on Diana Abu Jaber's contributions to the exploration of the concept of hybridity in her memoirs from many aspects, such as the hybridity of identity and culture. Furthermore, it highlights the basic differences between the memoirs in portraying the influences of the mixed culture and identity in Diana Abu Jaber's life. On the other hand, this study tries to explore the influences of mixed parentage of the writer on her writing of the two novels and her depiction of hybridity in identity, culture and language. Her American mother and her Jordanian father are the main motivation for Abu Jaber to focus on the mixture between Arab- American cultures in her writing.

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Field, R. E. "A Prophet in Her Own Town: An Interview with Diana Abu-Jaber." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 31, no. 4 (December 1, 2006): 207–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/31.4.207.

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Berrebbah, Ishak. "The Politics and Aesthetics of Storytelling in Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent: A Strategic Implementation of an Old Folkloric Arab Tradition." English Studies at NBU 6, no. 1 (June 30, 2020): 127–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.33919/esnbu.20.1.6.

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This paper discusses the politics and multi-functionality of storytelling in Diana Abu-Jaber’s novel Crescent (2003). I argue that the strategic use of storytelling places Crescent as a complex hybrid text that projects the nature, and development, of Arab American literature in the contemporary era. In addition to having the practice of storytelling as an apparatus to project identity in Crescent, Abu-Jaber re-appropriates its empowered status in Arab culture as well as politicizes its image in the mind of her readers. Besides employing critical and analytical approaches to the novel, this paper relies on arguments and perspectives of prominent postcolonial and literary critics and theorists such as Edward Said, Suzanne Keen, Walter Benjamin, and Samaya Sami Sabry, to name a few.

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Nyman, Jopi. "Cultural Contact and the Contemporary Culinary Memoir: Home, Memory and Identity in Madhur Jaffrey and Diana Abu-Jaber." a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 24, no. 2 (January 2009): 282–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2009.10815212.

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Hashim Taher, Asst Prof Isra. "القمر في الثقافة العراقية القديمة: اعادة قراءة لرواية" الهلال" لديانا ابو جابر و"طشاري" لأنعام كججي." ALUSTATH JOURNAL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 58, no. 2 (June 12, 2019): 115–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.36473/ujhss.v58i2.879.

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Man used to attribute good and evil in his life to celestial bodies. Therefore, ancient civilizations paid much attention to astronomy which had a lasting impact on mythology and religion. In ancient Iraqi mythology, sad and happy events like war and peace, death and fertility, flood and famine, were attributed to the appearance and disappearance of the moon.Among the post-modern writers who wrote novels about Iraq are the Arab-American Diana Abu Jaber (1959 -) and the Paris-based Iraqi Inaam Kachachi (1952 -). Abu Jaber's Crescent (2003) tells a love story between an Iraqi professor and an Iraqi-American girl. The crescent of the title has to do with the Islamic ritual of marking the beginning of a lunar month like Ramadhan. As the novel suggests it has to do with patience and the unknown as represented by the sudden and unexpected reappearance of the protagonist (Hanif) after a long time of absence. Whereas Kachachi's Tashari (2013) details the scattering of Iraqis in different parts of the world after the-2003 events. It attributes this tragedy to the Pope's refusal to visit the city of Ur, the birthplace of Prophet Abraham which also used to be the residence of Nana, the moon god of the ancient Sumerians. While apparently both novels deal in part with the religious beliefs and practices related to the moon in Islam and Christianity, they, however, make no direct reference to ancient Iraqi myths. Although Abu Jaber expressed the wish of writing about "the legacy of Iraq", "the cradle of civilization" and Kachachi wrote mainly about Iraq and its " good old days", but rarely they made a direct reference to the moon and its significance in ancient Iraqi culture. Nevertheless, both novels implicitly abound in references to the moon that can be analyzed in terms of its status and the lasting impact it had on ancient Iraqi culture, which will be the focus of this paper.

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Salaita, Steven. "Sand Niggers, Small Shops, and Uncle Sam: Cultural Negotiation in the Fiction of Joseph Geha and Diana Abu-Jaber." Criticism 43, no. 4 (2001): 423–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/crt.2001.0047.

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Dubovitskaya, Mariya Anatol'evna. "Ethno-Literary Identity through the Lenses of Multicultural Artistic Discourse by the Example of the Arabic American Novel “Arabian Jazz” by Diana Abu-Jaber." Filologičeskie nauki. Voprosy teorii i praktiki, no. 4 (April 2020): 55–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.30853/filnauki.2020.4.11.

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"Arab American Women Writers Defending Their Identities." Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences 3, no. 1 (February 10, 2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.33140/jhss.03.01.08.

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This paper addresses the issue of assimilation and identity as seen through some work that is written by Arab American women writers. The paper provides a brief history of Arab American immigration to USA. It primarily, examines three Arab American writers and highlights their impact on the American culture. The paper explores the three writers’ impact on the literature on showing assimilation and identity conflict as Arab women born, raised or lived in America. This paper explores some of their work to examine how they tackle the issue of race, identity, and ethnicity in their work. The three Arab American writers this paper studies are Diana Abu Jaber, Leila Ahmad, and Naomi Shihab Nye. Finally, this paper argues whether Arab American women writers manage to achieve the assimilation and whether they utilize the issue of their identity in what they have written as fictional and nonfictional work.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Diana Abu-Jaber"

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Sena, Milton Junior Ferreira de. "The politics of food and memory in Diana Abu-Jaber´s Crescent." Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1843/ECAP-8FGR89.

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This study discusses the fictional representation of food and memory in the novel Crescent (2003) by Jordanian-American Diana Abu-Jaber. The novel presents a rich depiction of food intertwined with memory and provides the ground for the discussion of ethnicity and political issues. In general, I argue that the restaurant chef Sirine and her food work as an ethnic bonding agent drawing different ethnicities of Arabs and non-Arabs together in the space of Nadia's Café, the locus where a heterogeneous diasporic community comes into existence. The café has a strong role to play as it is the space where characters make revelations concerning their fears and their past experiences, thus, it becomes a powerful site of memory to use Pierre Nora's term. In addition, I discuss the significance of photographs and other objects, especially a scarf - as they too operate a kind of return to the past, making early experiences surface in the present and therefore constituting as well a site of memory.
Este estudo discute a representação ficcional da comida e da memória no romance Crescent (2003) da escritora Estadunidense, de origem Jordaniana, Diana Abu-Jaber. O romance apresenta uma rica descrição da comida diretamente ligada à memória oferecendo o terreno para discussão da etnicidade e de assuntos políticos. No geral, argumento que Sirine e a comida feita por ela funcionam como um agente de ligação entre as diferentes etnicidades de árabes e não-árabes no espaço do Nadias Café, lugar de onde uma heterogênea comunidade diaspórica vem existir. O café exerce um papel importante por ser o espaço em que personagens fazem revelações a cerca de seus medos e de suas experiências passadas, constituindo, dessa maneira, um lugar de memória, conforme proposto por Pierre Nora. Além disso, discuto a importância das fotografias e de outros objetos especialmente um lenço por também operarem um retorno ao passado, fazendo experiências passadas virem à tona no presente, constituindo-se também como lugares de memória.

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El, Deek Hosry Manar. "Interrogations into Female Identity in Arab American literature." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040024.

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Cette thèse étudie des œuvres littéraires arabo-américaines contemporaines écrites par des femmes, plus spécifiquement les écrits d’Evelyn Shakir tels que Bint Arab, ainsi que plusieurs autres romans dont Arabian Jazz et Crescent de Diana Abu Jaber, The Inheritance of Exile de Susan Muaddi Darraj, The Night Counter d’Alia Yunis, et Once in a Promised Land de Laila Halaby. Elle montre comment ces œuvres construisent des univers où peuvent être interrogées les notions d’identité, de culture, d’ethnicité, et de genre. Les conflits quotidiens autour de l’identité sont traités en se fondant à la fois sur les œuvres critiques des femmes arabo-américaines et sur les études psycho-sociales du biculturalisme. De plus, ce travail met l’accent sur la formation de solidarités entre les femmes de couleur, en élargissant le concept de « conscience des zones frontalières » d’Anzaldua pour inclure les œuvres des écrivaines arabo-américaines. Les théories développées après la colonisation, particulièrement les études sur l’orientalisme à la suite d’Edward Said, sont également invoquées pour remettre en question le modèle oriental de la féminité. Enfin, cette thèse analyse la narration et son rôle dans la création d’un point d’ancrage pour les identités « exilées », insistant plus particulièrement sur la figure de Shéhérazade. Ce travail montre ainsi la façon dont les productions littéraires peuvent créer de nouveaux espaces pour comprendre les problèmes sociaux, politiques, culturels, ou ethniques
This dissertation analyses contemporary Arab-American literary productions by female writers, specifically, Shakir’s collection of memoirs Bint Arab and her two short stories “Oh Lebanon” and “Name Calling,” as well as a selection of novels, Abu Jaber’s Arabian Jazz and Crescent, Darraj’s The Inheritance of Exile, Alia Yunis’s The Night Counter, and Laila Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land. It shows how these works construct a space which enables them to investigate questions of identity, culture, ethnicity and gender. Identity conflicts around everyday matters like physical appearance, color, dress codes, veiling, chastity, and marriage are addressed by drawing upon critical works by Arab-American female writers and psycho-social studies on biculturalism. Moreover, this work emphasizes coalition-building with women of color by extending Anzaldua’s concept of the “consciousness of the borderlands” to encompass works by Arab-American female writers. Theories by post-colonial thinkers, particularly Said’s studies on Orientalism, also contribute to the dissertation’s questioning of the Oriental model of womanhood. Finally, this dissertation envisages critical works that study storytelling and its role in creating a surrogate home for “exilic” identities, with special emphasis on the Scheherazadian narrative. This project views literary productions as an appropriate way to investigate social, political, cultural and ethnic issues. It shows how writings by Arab-American women contribute to exploring inner identity conflicts, how they connect with other minority groups, and how they create a new sense of home

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Gratz, Kimberly A. "The power of conceptual metaphor in Diana Abu-Jaber's The Language of Baklava and Birds of Paradise." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/29311.

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This thesis examines the use of religious metaphor as it applies to food in two literary works by Diana Abu-Jaber. First, The Language of Baklava, a culinary memoir published in 2005, reveals aspects of cultural identity and memory through food and metaphor. Second, Abu-Jabers most recent novel, Birds of Paradise, explores complex family relationships enacted through metaphor. The analyses of textual representations of food rely on a theoretical framework that includes a cultural anthropological perspective, as well as a rhetorical perspective, and uses textual analysis to examine metaphor and food narratives in literature.
Graduation date: 2012

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HALIM, OUAHIBA. "Arab diaspora in the USA in the novels of Diana Abu-Jaber. Arabian Jaz and Crescent." Master's thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/20272.

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American society has been described as a melting pot of different peoples of multiple nationalities with various cultures coming together to form a nation. The history of America depicts a continent that was sparsely populated by the Indian tribes of America who are the original residents of the continent and whose autonomy has been jeopardized. The social dominance and identity of the different ethno-racial groups in the American society can be attributed to the time of their arrival in America and their numbers as well, giving a stronger social position to those who arrived earlier: The question of priority has been the biggest challenge to the minority groups that came to America later, and whose numbers are still low compared to other communities. Thus, they have tended to be made to feel like outsiders in a country to where their ancestors came and were buried. One minority group that has suffered the stigma of not being easily accepted in the American social fabric is the plural and diversified Arab-American community.

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Book chapters on the topic "Diana Abu-Jaber"

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Bauer, Silvia. "Abu-Jaber, Diana." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_4773-1.

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Bauer, Silvia. "Abu-Jaber, Diana: Das Prosawerk." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1–2. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_4774-1.

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"Bodies Across: Ahdaf Soueif, Fadia Faqir, Diana Abu Jaber." In Arab Voices in Diaspora, 313–38. Brill | Rodopi, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789042027190_012.

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"Home, Memory, and Identity in the Culinary Memoirs by Madhur Jaffrey and Diana Abu-Jaber." In Displacement, Memory, and Travel in Contemporary Migrant Writing, 94–113. Brill | Rodopi, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004342064_009.

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