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.
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.