IDENTITY QUEST THROUGH MEMORY IN DIANA ABU-JABER’S ARABIAN JAZZ (1993) an‎d CRESCENT (2003) an‎d LAILA HALABY’S ONCE IN A PROMISED LAND (2007)

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This paper tries to shed light on the identity quest through food and memory in the novels of the Arab-American writers like Diana Abu-Jaber’s novels Arabian Jazz (1993) and Crescent (2003) and Laila Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land (2007). This paper analyses how the main characters’ memory is evoked by food and storytelling, taking them back to roots; to origin; to who is an Arab while suffering the burden of identity doubleness.

Memory , Food , storytelling , identity quest , Arab , American novels

2016

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