مجلة البحوث و الدراسات الإنسانية
Volume 18, Numéro 2, Pages 115-130
2024-12-31
A Third Space Or A “thirdspace”? Diaspora Identities And The Rhizome Explored In Diana Abu-jaber’s Life Without A Recipe (2016)
Authors : Mahfouf Faiza .
Abstract
Twenty-first century literature broaches cultural concerns including, inter alia, migration and diaspora, memory and nostalgia, identity and heritage, and history and lineage, all converge in new spaces. As people are in constant mobility, they often settle in foreign lands, where cultural interactions naturally unfold among them, giving rise to multicultural societies. Thereupon, numerous modern diasporic authors attempt to mirror the multicultural ethos in their texts. This study maps how the culinary element behaves as a cultural connector in the Arab-American Diana Abu-Jaber’s memoir Life Without A Recipe (2016). Additionally, it peruses how she accentuates the urge to forge a transnational territory, wherein the seemingly irreconcilable cultural sets can ultimately reunite and harmonise the dissonance amongst cultures and identities. The paper invokes the deleuzoguattarian postmodern concept of the “rhizome” (1987) and E. W. Soja’s notion of the “Thirdspace”, where the reconciliation is made between cultural divides. It concludes that the memoir is a narrative of interbeing and transnationalism which rejects the hierarchical binaries and relocates Abu-Jaber’s bicultural self in a rhizomatic Thirdspace.
Keywords
culinary element ; diaspora ; cultural divides ; rhizome ; Thirdspace
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