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FOOD: INVISIBLE BRIDGE CONNECTING THE PAST AND PRESENT DAY OF DIASPORIC IDENTITY Hariyatmi, Sri
Celtic: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching, Literature and Linguistics Vol 6, No 2 (2019): December 2019
Publisher : University of Muhammadiyah Malang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (280.822 KB) | DOI: 10.22219/celtic.v6i2.9934

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As people migrate, they move along with their emotional luggage including flavors, aromas, smells, and their gastronomical experience that also travel with them. This paper seeks to explore the role of food in the life of diaspora and how their negotiation to choose food in their new “home” has become a magical space that allows them to reconfigure their sensory system and eventually makes them a person with richer sensory systems. Several studies have been conducted to explore the relationship between personal identity and food preference. None, however, discusses how food choice influences the reconstruction of identity. Thus, this study aimed at filling the niche by exploring the relationship between food and its influence in reconstructing identity quest.  This qualitative study collected its data from ten diasporas living in Thailand and Indonesia by using an informal semi-structured interview. The interview results were employed as the main data of this study. In addition, a descriptive qualitative technique was used to analyze the data.  Drawing on Babha’s concept of hybridity, this paper argues that firstly, food is an invisible bridge connecting the past and present-day of diasporic identity. Secondly, it also served as the shrine of negotiation for the diaspora in this study to reconfigure their identity in enduring adversity from living under a new dominant culture. 
Headscarves to Die for1: Freedom of Choice and a Freewill Symbol in Orhan Pamuk’s Snow Hariyatmi, Sri
Indonesian Journal of English Language Studies (IJELS) Vol 6, No 1 (2020): March 2020
Publisher : Magister Kajian Bahasa Inggris (English Language Studies) Universitas Sanata Dharma Yogy

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This article intends to unfold Orhan Pamuk’s conception or how he (re) presents women andtheir headscarves within Islamic tradition, with particular reference to his novel Snow. Snowopens with the return of Ka, a Turkish exile who has been leaving his country for 12 years toIstanbul in order to attend his mother’s funeral. He then decides to investigate a wave ofsuicide by young girls in the provincial city of Kars who object the ban of hijab in publicspaces. This study discovers that Pamuk explores the lamentation of the Muslim womenemanating out of the domain of religion and the will of the state as a stepping-stone to re(claim) the meaning of their headscarf and identity. Grounded in Mahmood theory, this studyargued that headscarf has a deeper meaning than just a symbol of religious devotion. It is aplatform of Muslim women’s individual will to exercise their chosen identity.Keywords: Muslim women, headscarf, religion, identity