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Eating identities : reading food in Asian American literature / Wenying Xu.

By: Publication details: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2008.Description: ix, 195 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780824831950 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0824831950 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 810.9/3559 22
LOC classification:
  • PS153.A84 X8 2008
Contents:
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.
List(s) this item appears in: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

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.

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