The immigrant kitchen : food, ethnicity, and diaspora /

"Halloran examines food memoirs by immigrants and their descendants and reveals how their treatment of food deeply embeds concerns about immigrant identity in the United States. Halloran argues that by offering a glimpse into the authors' domestic lives through discussions of homemade food...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Halloran, Vivian Nun, 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Food habits > United States.
Food in literature.
Immigrants > Cultural assimilation > United States.
Immigrants > United States > Anecdotes.
Immigrants' writings, American > History and criticism.
Ethnic food > Social aspects > United States.
Habitudes alimentaires > États-Unis.
Aliments dans la littérature.
Immigrants > Intégration > États-Unis.
Écrits d'immigrants américains > Histoire et critique.
Aliments ethniques > Aspect social > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Food habits.
Immigrants.
Immigrants > Cultural assimilation.
Immigrants' writings, American.
Einwanderer
Ernährungsgewohnheit
Ethnische Identität
United States.
USA.
Anecdotes.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Food in the immigrant's domestic life
  • From academic sojourners to settler migrants : "scholarship boy" and girls in the kitchen
  • Eating in public as performance of assimilation, diaspora, or ethnic belonging
  • Mapping the new south(west)ern home
  • Expats in love : recipes for belonging abroad
  • Diasporic inventions : reclaiming family culinary traditions
  • Talking turkey : the Thanksgiving holiday as the measure of assimilation.

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