Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 44
Food as Culture: Literary and Artistic Approaches
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Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-1-64903-402-1 (ISBN)
Description
Food as culture in literature and the arts
This issue of Alif seeks to contribute to current scholarship on food and foodways. Food, here, emerges as a way to construct identities-both individual and national-and as a means of addressing familial, social, and religious issues, thereby providing a valuable critical approach, not just to literature and the arts, but to the humanities and social sciences as well.
CONTRIBUTORS:
Emad Abdul-latif, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
Randa Aboubakr, Cairo University, Egypt
Shereen Abouelnaga, Cairo University, Egypt
Asaad Alsaleh, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Isabella Altoe, Queen's University, Ontario, Canada
Yasmin Amin, Orient-Institute Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Nada Ayad, The Cooper Union, New York City, New York, USA
David Bell, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA
Sayyed Daifallah, The Academy of Arts, Cairo, Egypt
Anusha D'souza, University of Mumbai, India
Anny Gaul, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
Walid Ghabbour, Port Said University, Port Said, Egypt
Magda Hasabelnaby, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Mohja Kahf, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
Adham Masaoud Al Kak, Levant Center for Cultural Studies, Cairo, Egypt
Ezzat El Kamhawi, Egyptian author, Cairo, Egypt
Mousa M. Khoury, Birzeit University, Ramallah, Palestine
Theresa Moran, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA
Salma Serry, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Omer Taher, Egyptian Author, Cairo, Egypt
This issue of Alif seeks to contribute to current scholarship on food and foodways. Food, here, emerges as a way to construct identities-both individual and national-and as a means of addressing familial, social, and religious issues, thereby providing a valuable critical approach, not just to literature and the arts, but to the humanities and social sciences as well.
CONTRIBUTORS:
Emad Abdul-latif, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
Randa Aboubakr, Cairo University, Egypt
Shereen Abouelnaga, Cairo University, Egypt
Asaad Alsaleh, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Isabella Altoe, Queen's University, Ontario, Canada
Yasmin Amin, Orient-Institute Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Nada Ayad, The Cooper Union, New York City, New York, USA
David Bell, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA
Sayyed Daifallah, The Academy of Arts, Cairo, Egypt
Anusha D'souza, University of Mumbai, India
Anny Gaul, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
Walid Ghabbour, Port Said University, Port Said, Egypt
Magda Hasabelnaby, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Mohja Kahf, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
Adham Masaoud Al Kak, Levant Center for Cultural Studies, Cairo, Egypt
Ezzat El Kamhawi, Egyptian author, Cairo, Egypt
Mousa M. Khoury, Birzeit University, Ramallah, Palestine
Theresa Moran, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA
Salma Serry, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Omer Taher, Egyptian Author, Cairo, Egypt
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English
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United States
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Paperback (trade)
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 165 mm
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978-1-64903-402-1 (9781649034021)
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Walid El Hamamsy is assistant professor of cultural studies at Cairo University. His academic interests focus on popular culture, comparative literature, translation, and gender. He is co-translator into Arabic of Thomas Jefferson's Revolutionary Democracy (2011) and co-editor of Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa: A Postcolonial Outlook (2013). He lives in Cairo.
Content
English and French Section
Editorial
Yasmin Amin: Belly-Laugh Abbasid Style: What Food Is to
the Body, Laughter Is to the Soul
Nada Ayad: Tasting Revolutions: Food, Gender, and Class
in Egyptian Women's Narratives
Anusha D'Souza: Nourriture, identite et enjeux de pouvoir
dans le roman Boadour de Firmin Lacpatia
Isabella Altoe: Art You Can Taste: Cooking and Eating
in a Gallery
David Bell and Theresa Moran: Conflict and Resolution at
the Table: The Role of Food in the TV Series Succession
Omer Taher: Extract from the Novel Kohl and Cardamom
(Translated by Randa Aboubakr)
Anny Gaul: Food Studies in the Arab World: An Interview
English Abstracts of Articles
English Notes on Contributors
Arabic Section
Editorial
Asaad Alsaleh: The Hungry Poet of "Lamiyyat al-'Arab"
and the Quest for New Values
Walid Ghabbour: The Anthropology of Food and Sex in
Pre-Modern Arabic Literature
Salma Serry: Al-?abkh al-manzili (1914): The Beginnings of
Domestic and Cookery Education in Egypt
Emad Abdul-latif: Popular Culture and Identity Formation:
Critical Discourse Analysis of Ful songs in Egypt
Mousa M. Khoury: The Representation of Foodways in
Palestinian Literature: Writing Under a Colonial Condition
Adham Masaoud Al Kak: A Semiotic Reading of Food in
Some Modern Arabic Novels
Sayyed Daifallah: Food and Narrative Identity in Days
of the Rising Sun by Miral al-Tahawy
Shereen Abouelnaga: From the Author's Kitchen
(An Interview with Ezzat El Kamhawi)
Mohja Kahf: Selected Poems from My Lover Feeds Me
Grapefruit (Translated by Magda Hasabelnaby)
Arabic Abstracts of Articles
Arabic Notes on Contributors
Editorial
Yasmin Amin: Belly-Laugh Abbasid Style: What Food Is to
the Body, Laughter Is to the Soul
Nada Ayad: Tasting Revolutions: Food, Gender, and Class
in Egyptian Women's Narratives
Anusha D'Souza: Nourriture, identite et enjeux de pouvoir
dans le roman Boadour de Firmin Lacpatia
Isabella Altoe: Art You Can Taste: Cooking and Eating
in a Gallery
David Bell and Theresa Moran: Conflict and Resolution at
the Table: The Role of Food in the TV Series Succession
Omer Taher: Extract from the Novel Kohl and Cardamom
(Translated by Randa Aboubakr)
Anny Gaul: Food Studies in the Arab World: An Interview
English Abstracts of Articles
English Notes on Contributors
Arabic Section
Editorial
Asaad Alsaleh: The Hungry Poet of "Lamiyyat al-'Arab"
and the Quest for New Values
Walid Ghabbour: The Anthropology of Food and Sex in
Pre-Modern Arabic Literature
Salma Serry: Al-?abkh al-manzili (1914): The Beginnings of
Domestic and Cookery Education in Egypt
Emad Abdul-latif: Popular Culture and Identity Formation:
Critical Discourse Analysis of Ful songs in Egypt
Mousa M. Khoury: The Representation of Foodways in
Palestinian Literature: Writing Under a Colonial Condition
Adham Masaoud Al Kak: A Semiotic Reading of Food in
Some Modern Arabic Novels
Sayyed Daifallah: Food and Narrative Identity in Days
of the Rising Sun by Miral al-Tahawy
Shereen Abouelnaga: From the Author's Kitchen
(An Interview with Ezzat El Kamhawi)
Mohja Kahf: Selected Poems from My Lover Feeds Me
Grapefruit (Translated by Magda Hasabelnaby)
Arabic Abstracts of Articles
Arabic Notes on Contributors