Eating Identities Reading Food in Asian American Literature /
Wenying Xu.
- 1 online resource (ix, 195 p.)
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-189) and index.
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.
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Food habits--Social aspects. Asian Americans in literature. Asian Americans--Intellectual life. Cooking in literature. Dinners and dining in literature. Food habits in literature. Gastronomy in literature. American literature--Asian American authors--History and criticism.