Eating identities : reading food in Asian American literature / Wenying Xu.
Through the examination of the work of several writers, the author explores how cooking, eating, and food are representative of Asian American identities in terms of race and ethnicity, gender, class, diaspora, and sexuality. She considers the relationship between food and identities in literature b...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawai'i Press,
[2008]
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access Table of contents |
| Summary: | Through the examination of the work of several writers, the author explores how cooking, eating, and food are representative of Asian American identities in terms of race and ethnicity, gender, class, diaspora, and sexuality. She considers the relationship between food and identities in literature by John Okada, Joy Kogawa, Frank Chin, Li-Young Lee, David Wong Louie, Mei Ng, and Monique Truong, and how their narratives are sites of economic, cultural, and political struggle. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 195 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0824831950 9780824831950 |