Research Catalog

Title

Eating identities [electronic resource] : reading food in Asian American literature / Wenying Xu.

Author

Xu, Wenying.

Publication

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2008.

Details

Description

1 online resource (ix, 195 p.)

Uniform Title

Eating identities (Online)

Alternative Title

Eating identities (Online)

Subject

• 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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-189) and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

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.

LCCN

2007035581

OCLC

ssj0000142691

Author

Xu, Wenying.

Title

Eating identities [electronic resource] : reading food in Asian American literature / Wenying Xu.

Imprint

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2008.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-189) and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

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