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Author Xu, Wenying, author.

Title Eating identities : reading food in Asian American literature / Wenying Xu
Published Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 195 pages)
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
Summary 'Eating Identities' is the first book to link food to a wide range of Asian American concerns such as race and sexuality. Xu provides lucid and informed interpretations of seven Asian American writers (John Okada, Joy Kogawa, Frank Chin, Li-Young Lee, David Wong Louie, Mei Ng, and Monique Truong), revealing how cooking, eating, and food fashion Asian American identities in terms of race/ethnicity, gender, class, diaspora, and sexuality. Most literary critics perceive alimentary references as narrative strategies or part of the background; Xu takes food as the central site of cultural and political struggles waged in the seemingly private domain of desire in the lives of Asian Americans. For students of literature, this tantalizing work offers an illuminating lesson on how to read the multivalent meanings of food and eating in literary texts
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-189) and index
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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
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- Asian American.
American literature -- Asian American authors.
Asian Americans in literature.
Asian Americans -- Intellectual life.
Cooking in literature.
Dinners and dining in literature.
Food habits in literature.
Food habits -- Social aspects.
Gastronomy in literature.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781435666771
1435666771
9780824862282
0824862287
9780824878436
0824878434