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Eating identities : reading food in Asian American literature / Wenying Xu
| Material Type | E-Book |
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| Publisher | Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press |
| Year | ©2008 |
| Language | English |
| Size | 1 online resource (ix, 195 pages) |
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| Media type | 機械可読データファイル |
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| Contents | Enjoyment and ethnic identity in No-no boy and Obasan Masculinity, food, and appetite in Frank Chin's Donald Duk and "The eat and run midnight people" Class and cuisine: David Wong Louie's The barbarians are coming Diaspora, transcendentalism, and ethnic gastronomy in the works of Li-Young Lee Sexuality, colonialism, and ethnicity in Monique Truong's The book of salt and Mei Ng's Eating Chinese food naked Epilogue: eating identities |
| Notes | 'Eating Identities' is the first book to link food to a wide range of Asian American concerns such as race and sexuality. Xu provides lucid and informed interpretations of seven Asian American writers (John Okada, Joy Kogawa, Frank Chin, Li-Young Lee, David Wong Louie, Mei Ng, and Monique Truong), revealing how cooking, eating, and food fashion Asian American identities in terms of race/ethnicity, gender, class, diaspora, and sexuality. Most literary critics perceive alimentary references as narrative strategies or part of the background; Xu takes food as the central site of cultural and political struggles waged in the seemingly private domain of desire in the lives of Asian Americans. For students of literature, this tantalizing work offers an illuminating lesson on how to read the multivalent meanings of food and eating in literary texts Open Access English Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-189) and index digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library Print version record Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010 Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 |
| Authors | *Xu, Wenying, |
| Subjects | BSH:Electronic books FREE:Criticism, interpretation, etc LCSH:American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism All Subject Search LCSH:Gastronomy in literature LCSH:Food habits in literature LCSH:Dinners and dining in literature LCSH:Cooking in literature LCSH:Asian Americans -- Intellectual life All Subject Search LCSH:Asian Americans in literature LCSH:Food habits -- Social aspects All Subject Search BISACSH:LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General All Subject Search BISACSH:LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- Asian American All Subject Search FREE:American literature -- Asian American authors All Subject Search FREE:Asian Americans in literature FREE:Asian Americans -- Intellectual life All Subject Search FREE:Cooking in literature FREE:Dinners and dining in literature FREE:Food habits in literature FREE:Food habits -- Social aspects All Subject Search FREE:Gastronomy in literature |
| Classification | DC22:810.9/3559 |
| ID | ED00004201 |
| ISBN | 9781435666771 |