Eating Identities Reading Food in Asian American Literature /

Xu, Wenying,

Eating Identities Reading Food in Asian American Literature / [print] Wenying Xu. - Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, (c)2008. - 1 online resource (ix, 195 pages) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .



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

PS153 PS153.P964.E285 2008