الحياة بين عالمين: العرقيه والهويه وتمکين الذات لدى الامريکان ذوى الاصول العربيه فى رواية" هلال" لديانا ابو جابر

The aim of this paper is to analyze issues of identity and cultural hybridity in Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent through the exploration of the importance of storytelling, language and culinary art as cultural tropes for identity formation in Arab-American reality. The issues that this study tackles are examined through the critical approaches of post-colonialism, feminism, and food studies. Crescent adapts elements from The Arabian Nights in diverse ways, mainly; the framing of the chapters and the ongoing story-filled content involving fantastic segments recounted orally. Cooking functions as a complex language for communicating love, evoking memory and dealing with displacement. Food emerges as an avenue for questioning cultural, racial and linguistic boundaries. In a world of mutilating political struggle and loss, Abu-Jaber’shybridnarrative utilizes native cultural elements to construct spaces wherein people perceive the possibilities of interaction and community.