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Filtering by: Creator White, Richard Eugene Committee Member Gross, Joan Subject Abu-Jaber, Diana. Birds of paradise

The power of conceptual metaphor in Diana Abu-Jaber's The Language of Baklava and Birds of Paradise

Creator:

Gratz, Kimberly A.

Abstract:

This thesis examines the use of religious metaphor as it applies to food in two literary works by Diana Abu-Jaber. First, The Language of Baklava, a culinary memoir published in 2005, reveals aspects of cultural identity and memory through food and metaphor. Second, Abu-Jabers most recent novel, Birds of Paradise,...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

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you to my husband and partner in life, Richard, and to my sweet Bug, Anna G. I am one lucky girl