Eating identities reading food in Asian American literature /

Main Author: Xu, Wenying.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2008.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10386689
Table of 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.