Eurasian Applied Linguistics Society, Moscow, Russia (Registered ID: 1167746743889) Online ISSN: 2667-6214 Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies 2667-6214 5 3 2024 09 19 Discussing Exile and Diaspora through Food: Diana Abu Jaber’s Crescent. 53 61 218562 10.26655/JELCS.2024.02.8 EN Adil Ouatat English department, faculty of arts and human sciences, university Sultan Moulay Sliman Beni mellal Morocco 0000-0002-0744-9076 Adil OUATAT English Departement, Faculty of Arts and Humanities,University Sultan Moulay Sliman, Beni Mellal, Morocco 0000-0002-0744-9076 Journal Article 2022 12 17 For Arabs in Diaspora, Memory and nostalgia establishes and validates the home consciousness and entails the linkage to the home land. Within this community, cuisine and methods of its production are a crucial medium for the retention of cultural knowledge. Food is a cultural trope that is discussed in many scientific fields such as anthropology, sociology, psychology, cultural studies, and Literary criticism. In this view, food a a trope that diasporic writers deploy to negotiate their existence and raise questions about one self’s identity and his displacement in the host land. Also, the use of the thematic representation of food lets Arab Author, Diana Abu Jaber includes, to discuss the political issue of otherness and self by representing this cultural trope. This paper aims to examine the representation of food in diaspora and exile in linkage to identity within the writing of Arab-American author Diana Abu Jaber's “Crescent”. Moreover, food is a marker that eases the existence of people in exile. https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_218562_12f07aa468f072eb749e65d4dd16bce6.pdf