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    On Diaspora and Culinary Nostalgia: Reterritorializing Identity in the Reconceptualized “Thirdspace” in Diana Abu-Jaber Crescent (2003)
    (2023) Chili, Kaouther; Mahfouf, Faiza (Supervisor)
    This thesis examines the ramifications and implications of diaspora on displaced individuals, focusing on issues of spatiality and identity as depicted in Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent (2003). Drawing on Robin Cohen’s conception of “diaspora”, as well as Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s co-founded concepts of “deterritorialization and reterritorialization”, the current study unravels the challenges of the diasporic community upon their dislocation, disrupting their spatial perception and self-identification within an unfamiliar host society. Moreover, it analyzes how individuals in diaspora resist cultural erasure and the influence of hegemonic powers by using culinary elements, nostalgia, and memory to reconnect with their lost tradition. Additionally, this research explores how the author reconstructs a radical “Thirdspace” of resistance within the narrative to counter the cultural erasure and re-assert her characters’ cultural identities. The analysis draws on the concepts of nostalgia, memory, deterritorialization-reterritorialization, and Edward Soja’s theoretical conception of the “Thirdspace”. The study concludes that certain characters experience absolute deterritorialization from their cultural identity, while others reterritorialize it within the foreign American territories by strategically employing the culinary elements in a heteroglossic discourse that encompasses nostalgia and memory. This process facilitates the creation of a “Thirdspace” of resistance that enables diaspora individuals to reclaim their agency, preserve their culture, and ensure the continuity of their origin and legacy within the confines of the American territory.
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    The Displaced Arab and the Question of Authenticity in Robin Yassin Kassab’s The Road from Damascus (2008) and Rawi Hage’s Cockroach (2008)
    (2023) Sefroun, Abdelghani; Asklou, Hocine; Kherif, Sonia ( Supervisor)
    This thesis explores the different interpretations of authenticity and identity in Rawi Hage’s Cockroach (2008) and Robin Yassin-Kassab’s The Road from Damascus (2008) through an existential lens. Drawing on the philosophies of Jean-Paul Sartre and Søren Kierkegaard, the study examines the identity crisis and struggles of Arab immigrants in Canada and the United Kingdom. Sartre’s concept of existence preceding essence, bad faith, and alienation, along with Kierkegaard’s concept of anxiety, provide a suitable framework to analyze the characters’ search for their authentic selves. Through a close analysis of the novels, this study shows how the characters’ experiences of displacement and marginalization result in contrasting renditions of identity crisis and obstruction of authenticity. Additionally, it offers insights into the challenges Arab immigrants face in the Western Milieu, in addition to how their struggles relate to larger existential questions about the nature of human identity and existence.