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Eating Words, Food in Modern Arabic Literature
Series: - Supplements to the Journal of Arabic Literature, Volume: 02
Editor:
How is food portrayed in Arabic novels? In literature, food is more than mere sustenance—it carries layered meanings. This multilingual collection brings together experts in Arabic literature to examine the complex representations of food and eating. Through themes such as dining rituals, foodstuffs, animal consumption, memory, food habits, and hunger, the content of each chapter intersects with literary criticism on food but is uniquely shaped by the Arab world’s local settings and customs. Offering perspectives that reach beyond literature, this book provides a nuanced view of Arab culture and society, inviting readers to explore the multiple significations of food.
Contributors: Tania Al Saadi, Ada Barbaro, Sobhi Boustani, Martina Censi, Peter Dové, Hartmut Fähndrich, Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla, Ana Gonzalez Navarro, Felix Lang, Astrid Ottosson al-Bitar, and Heidi Toelle.
Contributors: Tania Al Saadi, Ada Barbaro, Sobhi Boustani, Martina Censi, Peter Dové, Hartmut Fähndrich, Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla, Ana Gonzalez Navarro, Felix Lang, Astrid Ottosson al-Bitar, and Heidi Toelle.
Tania Al Saadi, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Stockholm University in Sweden, specializing in modern Arabic literature. She earned her doctorate from Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 in 2008 and has published on various themes within modern Arabic fiction.
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Tania Al Saadi
1 Fonctions narratives de la nourriture dans les romans de ‛Alawiyya Ṣubḥ et Rašīd al-Ḍa‛īf
Sobhi Boustani
2 Finding One’s Place at the Table
Food and Foodways in Two Young Adult Novels by Fatima Sharafeddine
Astrid Ottosson al-Bitar
3 Nourriture et poétique du retour dans Sīnālkūl (2012) d’Elias Khoury
Martina Censi
4 Ce temps qui passe (pas) ….
La nourriture comme marqueur de temporalité dans Ḥaǧar al-ḍaḥik de Hoda Barakat
Tania Al Saadi
5 Al-Farīsa : Proie et/ou martyr?
Analyse d’une nouvelle de Zakariyyā Tāmir
Heidi Toelle
6 Manger des animaux ?
L’enfant et l’éthique (animale) dans al-Qunfuḏ de Zakariyyā Tāmir
Peter Dové
7 Milk of Sarmada
Tracing More-Than-Human Relations in a Novel by Fadi Azzam
Felix Lang
8 Colonial Churro
On Food and Deprivation in Mohamed Choukri’s Novelistic Autobiography
Ana González Navarro and Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla
9 Al-ʿAyš al-Badīl or Eradicating Hunger in Some Proposals by Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm
(Un)Real Suggestions throughout Hybrid Literary Paths
Ada Barbaro
10 Boiling Blood
Providing Food for the Needy in Muḥammad Mustaǧāb’s Story “Ḥarq al-dam”
Hartmut Fähndrich
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Tania Al Saadi
1 Fonctions narratives de la nourriture dans les romans de ‛Alawiyya Ṣubḥ et Rašīd al-Ḍa‛īf
Sobhi Boustani
2 Finding One’s Place at the Table
Food and Foodways in Two Young Adult Novels by Fatima Sharafeddine
Astrid Ottosson al-Bitar
3 Nourriture et poétique du retour dans Sīnālkūl (2012) d’Elias Khoury
Martina Censi
4 Ce temps qui passe (pas) ….
La nourriture comme marqueur de temporalité dans Ḥaǧar al-ḍaḥik de Hoda Barakat
Tania Al Saadi
5 Al-Farīsa : Proie et/ou martyr?
Analyse d’une nouvelle de Zakariyyā Tāmir
Heidi Toelle
6 Manger des animaux ?
L’enfant et l’éthique (animale) dans al-Qunfuḏ de Zakariyyā Tāmir
Peter Dové
7 Milk of Sarmada
Tracing More-Than-Human Relations in a Novel by Fadi Azzam
Felix Lang
8 Colonial Churro
On Food and Deprivation in Mohamed Choukri’s Novelistic Autobiography
Ana González Navarro and Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla
9 Al-ʿAyš al-Badīl or Eradicating Hunger in Some Proposals by Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm
(Un)Real Suggestions throughout Hybrid Literary Paths
Ada Barbaro
10 Boiling Blood
Providing Food for the Needy in Muḥammad Mustaǧāb’s Story “Ḥarq al-dam”
Hartmut Fähndrich
Index