How what you eat defines who you are
Subtitle: the food theme in four American women writers
By: Ya-hui Irenna Chang ; with a foreword by Wendell Aycock.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780773449060
Subjects: Kingston, Maxine Hong -- Criticism and interpretation.; Walker, Alice, -- 1944- -- 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 -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Other titles: Food theme in four American women writers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: 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; value: Consuming the beloved and being transformed: love triangles in Louise Erdrich's Love medicine and Alice Walker's The color purple; value: Taste and collective identity in Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior and Amy Tan's The joy luck club; value: Food, domestic space, and gender identity in Steven Spielberg's The color purple and Wayne Wang's The joy luck club.