Title: How what you eat defines who you are : the food theme in four American women writers /
Authors: Chang, Ya-hui Irenna.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Kingston, Maxine Hong Criticism and interpretation.; Walker, Alice, Criticism and interpretation.; Tan, Amy Criticism and interpretation.; Erdrich, Louise Criticism and interpretation.; American fiction Women authors History and criticism; American fiction Minority authors History and criticism; Food habits in literature.; Identity (Psychology) in literature.; American fiction History and criticism
Contents: Food consumption and the troubled self in Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior, Alice Walker's The color purple, Amy Tan's The joy luck club, and Louise Erdrich's Love medicine -- Consuming the beloved and being transformed: love triangles in Louise Erdrich's Love medicine and Alice Walker's The color purple -- Taste and collective identity in Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior and Amy Tan's The joy luck club -- Food, domestic space, and gender identity in Steven Spielberg's The color purple and Wayne Wang's The joy luck club.