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Eating identities : reading food in Asian American literature /

Xu, Wenying.

Eating identities : reading food in Asian American literature / Wenying Xu. - Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2008. - ix, 195 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-189) and index.

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.

9780824831950 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0824831950 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2007035581


American literature--Asian American authors--History and criticism.
Gastronomy in literature.
Food habits in literature.
Dinners and dining in literature.
Cooking in literature.
Asian Americans--Intellectual life.
Asian Americans in literature.
Food habits--Social aspects.

PS153.A84 / X8 2008

810.9/3559

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