Article ID: CBB001550578

When Mothers Ate Their Children: Wartime Memory and the Language of Food in Syria and Lebanon (2014)

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al-Qattan, Najwa (Author)


International Journal of Middle East Studies
Volume: 46, no. 4
Issue: 4
Pages: 719-736


Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: Part of a Series: “World War I”
Language: English

This article explores the experience of the Great War in Syria and Lebanon with a specific focus on the famine that, combined with other wartime calamities, decimated the civilian population. Using food as its primary register, it looks at a wide range of largely untapped Syrian and Lebanese poems, zajal, plays, novels, memoirs, and histories written over the course of the 20th century, in order to illuminate the experiential dimensions of the civilians' war and to delineate some of the discourses that structured it. More specifically, it argues that the wartime famine in Syria and Lebanon gave rise to a remembered cuisine of desperation that is deeply informative about the ruptured world of the civilians' war.

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Authors & Contributors
Tsacoyianis, Beverly Ann
Christmas, Sakura Marcelle
Cox, Mary Elisabeth
Medina-Albaladejo, Francisco J.
Ventura, Theresa
Hayden-Smith, Rose
Concepts
World War I
Food and foods
Malnutrition
Public health
Nutrition; dietetics
Science and war; science and the military
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
21st century
Places
Syria
Lebanon
Germany
Great Britain
Middle and Near East
Manchuria
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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