بلاغة الفقراء الاستجابة البليغة لخطاب تحقير طعام الغلابة

Résumé

 This article tests the hypothesis that popular groups, especially the poor people challenges the discursive contempt of their food and produces rhetorical strategies to defend their identity and way of life. The article answers two questions: How do the poor Egyptians deal with the derogation of their food? And, what are the rhetorical methods they use that defy this rhetoric of humiliation? I analyze a corpus of proverbs, street cries, dailylife expression to answer these two questions. I examine the relationship between food and social and political identity in Egyptian popular discourse and the role of popular rhetoric in defending the interests of the marginalized. I argue that the poor people have devised rhetorical responses to stand against this sort of discrimination based on food and create a perception of equality between the food of the poor and the rich, aiming to undermine the basis on which food is used as an instrument of social discrimination.