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Eating Identities : Reading Food in Asian American Literature

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode ;2008 University of Hawai‘i Press ;ISBN: 9780824878436 ;ISBN: 0824878434 ;ISBN: 0824831950 ;ISBN: 9780824831950 ;EISBN: 9780824862282 ;EISBN: 0824862287 ;DOI: 10.2307/j.ctt6wqwpv ;OCLC: OCN: 1024044432 ;OCLC: 1024044432 ;OCLC: 257512638 ;LCCallNum: PS153.A84

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Title:
Eating Identities : Reading Food in Asian American Literature
Author: Xu, Wenying
Subjects: American ; American literature ; Asian American ; Asian American authors ; Asian American Studies ; Asian Americans ; Asian Americans in literature ; Cookery in literature ; Cooking in literature ; Dinners and dining in literature ; Ethnic group ; Ethnic Studies ; Food habits ; Food habits in literature ; Gastronomy in literature ; History and criticism ; Intellectual life ; Language & Literature ; LITERARY CRITICISM ; Literature ; Masculinity ; Social aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE
Description: 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.
Publisher: Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press
Creation Date: 2007
Format: 209
Language: English
Identifier: ISBN: 9780824878436
ISBN: 0824878434
ISBN: 0824831950
ISBN: 9780824831950
EISBN: 9780824862282
EISBN: 0824862287
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctt6wqwpv
OCLC: OCN: 1024044432
OCLC: 1024044432
OCLC: 257512638
LCCallNum: PS153.A84
Source: Project MUSE Open Access Books
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