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- Title
مختارات من ديوان «حبيبي يطعمني ليمون الجنة ».
- Authors
مهجة قحف
- Abstract
Food features prominently in the poetry of the Arab-American writer, Mohja Kahf, as a tool to recreate the aroma of the Syrian home amid exile. A three-year-old Mohja migrated with her parents from Syria to the US and is still unable to return. These poems, presented in Arabic for the first time from Kahf’s My Lover Feeds Me Grapefruit (2020), reveal that food plays a pivotal role in sketching memories and emotions. Portraying food, its preparation, serving, and consumption is a strategy used by writers in exile, intentionally or subconsciously, to preserve the memory of home by summoning food, its taste, looks, and smells.
- Subjects
EXILE (Punishment); EMOTIONS; GRAPEFRUIT; TASTE; MEMORY
- Publication
Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, 2024, Issue 44, p201
- ISSN
1110-8673
- Publication type
Article