Eating identities
Subtitle: reading food in Asian American literature
By: Wenying Xu
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780824831950
Subjects: American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism; Gastronomy in literature; Food habits in literature; Dinners and dining in literature; Cookery in literature; Asian Americans -- Intellectual life; Asian Americans in literature; Food habits -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-189) and index
Table of contents: title: Enjoyment and ethnic identity in No-no boy and Obasan; title: Masculinity, food, and appetite in Frank Chin's Donald Duk and "The eat and run midnight people"; title: Class and cuisine: David Wong Louie's The barbarians are coming; title: Diaspora, transcendentalism, and ethnic gastronomy in the works of Li-Young Lee; title: Sexuality, colonialism, and ethnicity in Monique Truong's The book of salt and Mei Ng's Eating Chinese food naked; title: Epilogue: eating identities