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.
Emara, M. (2015). Between Two Worlds: Ethnicity, Identity, and Arab-American Self-Empowerment in Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent. Annals of the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, 43(January - March (B)), 523-562. doi: 10.21608/aafu.2015.6347
MLA
Maha Emara. "Between Two Worlds: Ethnicity, Identity, and Arab-American Self-Empowerment in Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent". Annals of the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, 43, January - March (B), 2015, 523-562. doi: 10.21608/aafu.2015.6347
HARVARD
Emara, M. (2015). 'Between Two Worlds: Ethnicity, Identity, and Arab-American Self-Empowerment in Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent', Annals of the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, 43(January - March (B)), pp. 523-562. doi: 10.21608/aafu.2015.6347
VANCOUVER
Emara, M. Between Two Worlds: Ethnicity, Identity, and Arab-American Self-Empowerment in Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent. Annals of the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, 2015; 43(January - March (B)): 523-562. doi: 10.21608/aafu.2015.6347
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