Consumption and identity in Asian American coming-of-age novels
By: Jennifer Ann Ho.
Series: Studies in Asian Americans; Asian Americans.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: American fiction -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism.; Bildungsromans -- History and criticism.; Consumption (Economics) in literature.; Asian Americans -- Intellectual life.; Identity (Psychology) in literature.; Asian Americans in literature.; Group identity in literature.; Food habits in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-196) and index.
Table of contents: title: Consuming Asian American history in Frank Chin's Donald Duk; title: To eat, to buy, to be : consumption as identity in Lois Ann Yamanaka's Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers; title: Feeding the spirit : mourning for the mother(land) in Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge and Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman; title: Fusion creations in Gus Lee's China Boy and Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land.