Diaspora and sites of memory: an approach to literature by immigrants in the United States
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Resumo: | Today’s world is characterized by transnationalism, an intense flow of people across geographical and cultural boundaries. The transit of subjects is of particular interest to diaspora writers, whose works often portray intercultural relations and explore issues such as dislocation, belonging, and displacement. Such is the context for this article’s contention: that spaces and objects become crucial lieux de mémoire, or sites of memory, in Pierre Nora’s terms, for diaspora writers. Of many possible sites of memory, food is the one that seems more recurrent than others in literary works by diaspora writers. The present article also argues that not only food or dishes, but also the act of cooking itself, as a sort of voluntary mnemonic performance, may constitute a site of memory. As represented through fiction, food and culinary exchange illustrate well what Avtar Brah describes as “diaspora space”, that is, a space that is inhabited both by the immigrant and the native, and where interethnic and intercultural exchanges occur, where the local meets the global. The claims discussed in the article are illustrated with a discussion of the novel Crescent, by Diana Abu-Jaber. |
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2022-12-06T17:28:16Z2022-12-06T17:28:16Z201781495921776288http://hdl.handle.net/1843/47787Today’s world is characterized by transnationalism, an intense flow of people across geographical and cultural boundaries. The transit of subjects is of particular interest to diaspora writers, whose works often portray intercultural relations and explore issues such as dislocation, belonging, and displacement. Such is the context for this article’s contention: that spaces and objects become crucial lieux de mémoire, or sites of memory, in Pierre Nora’s terms, for diaspora writers. Of many possible sites of memory, food is the one that seems more recurrent than others in literary works by diaspora writers. The present article also argues that not only food or dishes, but also the act of cooking itself, as a sort of voluntary mnemonic performance, may constitute a site of memory. As represented through fiction, food and culinary exchange illustrate well what Avtar Brah describes as “diaspora space”, that is, a space that is inhabited both by the immigrant and the native, and where interethnic and intercultural exchanges occur, where the local meets the global. The claims discussed in the article are illustrated with a discussion of the novel Crescent, by Diana Abu-Jaber.: O mundo contemporâneo é caracterizado pelo transnacionalismo, um fluxo intenso de pessoas através de fronteiras geográficas e culturais. O trânsito de sujeitos é foco de interesse por parte de escritores diaspóricos, cujas obras frequentemente retratam relações interculturais e abordam aspectos como deslocamento, pertencimento e displaçamento. Tal é o contexto para a proposta desenvolvida no presente artigo; a hipótese em tela é que esses espaços e objetos se tornam lieux de mémoire cruciais, segundo a definição apresentada por Pierre Nora, para membros da grupos diaspóricos. Dentre os diversos lugares de memória possíveis, a comida surge como um dos mais recorrentes em obras de escritores diaspóricos. O presente artigo argumenta, ainda, que não apenas a comida e os pratos com ela preparados constituem lugares de memória, mas também o próprio ato de cozinhar, espécie de performance mnemônica voluntária. A comida e as trocas culinárias, representadas através da ficção, ilustram o que Avtar Brah chama de “espaço diaspórico”: um espaço habitado tanto pelo imigrante quanto pelo nativo, em que ocorrem trocas interétnicas e interculturais, em que o local encontra o global. 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Diaspora and sites of memory: an approach to literature by immigrants in the United States |
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Diáspora e lieux de mémoire: a literatura de imigrantes nos Estados Unidos |
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Diaspora and sites of memory: an approach to literature by immigrants in the United States |
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Diaspora and sites of memory: an approach to literature by immigrants in the United States Gláucia Renate Gonçalves Diáspora Memory Food Memória |
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Diaspora and sites of memory: an approach to literature by immigrants in the United States |
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Diaspora and sites of memory: an approach to literature by immigrants in the United States |
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Diaspora and sites of memory: an approach to literature by immigrants in the United States |
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Diaspora and sites of memory: an approach to literature by immigrants in the United States |
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Diaspora and sites of memory: an approach to literature by immigrants in the United States |
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Gláucia Renate Gonçalves |
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Gláucia Renate Gonçalves |
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Memória |
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Today’s world is characterized by transnationalism, an intense flow of people across geographical and cultural boundaries. The transit of subjects is of particular interest to diaspora writers, whose works often portray intercultural relations and explore issues such as dislocation, belonging, and displacement. Such is the context for this article’s contention: that spaces and objects become crucial lieux de mémoire, or sites of memory, in Pierre Nora’s terms, for diaspora writers. Of many possible sites of memory, food is the one that seems more recurrent than others in literary works by diaspora writers. The present article also argues that not only food or dishes, but also the act of cooking itself, as a sort of voluntary mnemonic performance, may constitute a site of memory. As represented through fiction, food and culinary exchange illustrate well what Avtar Brah describes as “diaspora space”, that is, a space that is inhabited both by the immigrant and the native, and where interethnic and intercultural exchanges occur, where the local meets the global. The claims discussed in the article are illustrated with a discussion of the novel Crescent, by Diana Abu-Jaber. |
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