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“Beyond Univocal Baklava: Deconstructing Food-as-Ethnicity and the Ideology of Homeland in Diana Abu Jaber’s The Language of Baklava.” Journal of Arabic Literature. Search in Google Scholarīardenstein, Carol. Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities. Search in Google ScholarĪshcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths, and Hellen Tiffin. “New Hybridities, Old Concepts: The Limits of Culture.” In The Routledge Diaspora Studies Reader. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. Diaspora, Memory, and Identity: A Search for Home. Search in Google ScholarĪbu-Jaber, Diana. Masterfully drawing on King Lear and Arthurian fable, Fencing with the King will explore the power of inheritance, the trauma of displacement, and whether we can release the past to build a future.Abu-Jaber, Diana. Her forthcoming work of fiction, Fencing with the King, is a novel of Middle Eastern intrigue and suspense. Her first novel, Arabian Jazz-considered by many to be the first mainstream Arab-American novel-won the 1994 Oregon Book Award. She later attended SUNY-Binghamton for her PhD.

Abu-Jaber received her MA from the University of Windsor. The struggle to make sense of this sort of hybrid life, or “in-betweenness,” permeates Abu-Jaber’s fiction.

When she was seven, her family moved to Jordan for two years, and she has lived between the US and Jordan ever since. From Left Bank Books to support authors and independent bookstores!įor more information about the event, please visit One Book, One Kirkwood here.ĭiana Abu-Jaber was born in Syracuse, New York to an American mother and a Jordanian father.

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