Abstract
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.
Highlights
1 It is known that each country throughout the world has its own identity, language and culture that distinguish its people from others
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)
Some people in many countries have combined two different identities, languages and cultures, in their practical life. These varieties of people represent the term hybridity which means a mixture between two cultures, such as Eastern and Western cultures
Summary
Diana Abu Jaber is an Arab- American writer who combines Eastern and Western cultures in her life. The writer tries to analyze two modern memoirs which are written in different representational strategies: The Language of Baklava by the Arab- American writer Diana Abu Jaber and Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a childhood in India by Madhur Jaffrey He mentions that these two novels portray the transculturation between the Eastern and Western people by using different activities such as food, memory and home. As is the case in many studies under review, the researcher uses one of Abu Jaber's old writings to analyze different cultural issues What distinguishes this current study from previous studies is its attempt to expand the analysis of the cultural aspects in Diana Abu Jaber's memoirs The Language of Baklava and Life Without a Recipe, by highlighting the concept of hybridity. Comparative and textual approaches will be applied to clarify the development of the concept of hybridity from Abu Jaber's point of view during the period of writing the two memoirs
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