Xu, Wenying.

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.

Open Access

9780824862282




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.


Electronic books.

PS153.A84 / X8 2008

810.9/3559