Résumé: This article sheds light on how the Arab diasporic hybrid identity has been shaped by place. It also emphasizes the importance of memory for Arab Muslim Anglophone women writers, who turn to this compensation strategy to overcome the painful sense of loneliness, in the “host land.” The purpose of this study is to show how the protagonists of Leila Aboulela’s The Translator (1999) and Randa Abdelfattah’s Does my Head Look Big in This? (2005) skillfully define themselves and dispel the myths about the Arab culture in the West. Résumé Cet article met en lumière la manière dont l'identité hybride de la diaspora Arabe a été façonnée par le lieu. Il souligne également l'importance de la mémoire pour les écrivaines Arabes Musulmanes Anglophones, qui se tournent vers cette stratégie de compensation pour surmonter le douloureux sentiment de solitude, dans le «pays d'accueil». L’objet de cette étude est de montrer comment les protagonistes de La Traductrice (1999) de Leila Aboulela et Ma Tête Semble-t-elle Grosse?de Randa Abdelfattah (2005) se définissent habilement et dissipent les mythes sur la culture Arabe en Occident.

Résumé: This article spotsthe light on how, through the use of the memoir genre, Diana Abu Jaber and Suheir Hammad purposefully show the complexities of their identities. It emphasizes onhow they assert their Arab identity through cooking Arab food within the U.S. landscape. It also stresseson how as contemporary Arab American memoirists, Abu Jaber and Hammad tend to bridge the gap between Eastern and Western worlds, and rely on the journey motif in the search for their identities. The purpose of this study is to show how, in their culinary diasporic memoirs, the writers enhance the nostalgia of the homeland and remembering of the beautiful sense of Jordan and Palestine, via smell and taste memory.