TY  - BOOK
AU  - Xu,Wenying
TI  - Eating identities: reading food in Asian American literature 
SN  - 9780824831950 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - PS153.A84 X8 2008
U1  - 810.9/3559 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Honolulu
PB  - University of Hawai'i Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - Asian American authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Gastronomy in literature
KW  - Food habits in literature
KW  - Dinners and dining in literature
KW  - Cooking in literature
KW  - Asian Americans
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Asian Americans in literature
KW  - Food habits
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - 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
ER  -