Eating identities : reading food in Asian American literature /

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'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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Xu, Wenying
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2008]
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
American literature > Asian American authors > History and criticism.
Asian Americans in literature.
Asian Americans > Intellectual life.
Cooking in literature.
Dinners and dining in literature.
Food habits in literature.
Food habits > Social aspects.
Gastronomy in literature.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs américains d'origine asiatique > Histoire et critique.
Gastronomie dans la littérature.
Habitudes alimentaires dans la littérature.
Américains d'origine asiatique > Vie intellectuelle.
Américains d'origine asiatique dans la littérature.
Habitudes alimentaires > Aspect social.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > Asian American.
American literature > Asian American authors
Asian Americans in literature
Asian Americans > Intellectual life
Cooking in literature
Dinners and dining in literature
Food habits in literature
Food habits > Social aspects
Gastronomy in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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