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
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