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标题：Cross-cultural Marriages and the Politics of Food in Diasporic Arab Fiction
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作者：Majd Alkayid ; Yousef Awad
期刊名称：International Journal of English and Education
印刷版ISSN：2278-4012
出版年度：2019
卷号：8
期号：2
页码：1-9
出版社：Brahmaputra Publishing House
摘要：Food is an important aspect of recreating home for immigrants in their new lands. In fact, food does not only provide the nutritious value for people to survive and grow, but it also connotes multiple functions. It encodes various personal, social and cultural messages that immigrants use in order to recreate their homes. This paper aims at investigating the functions of food, including food as a language and as a metaphor for knowledge, food as a system of communication, and food as a theme that is interconnected with memory to re/construct cultural identity. These symbolic meanings of food are explored within the framework of cross-cultural marriages that are portrayed in Joseph Geha’s Through and Through: Toledo Stories (1990), Diana Abu-Jaber’s Arabian Jazz (1993) and Fadia Faqir’s My Name is Salma (2007).
关键词：Diaspora; Arab fiction; cross;cultural marriage and food