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1 online resource (ix, 195 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-189) and index. |
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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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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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| 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. |
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JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
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American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Asian American authors. |
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Gastronomy in literature.
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Gastronomy in literature. |
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Food habits in literature.
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Food habits in literature. |
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Dinners and dining in literature.
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Dinners and dining in literature. |
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Cooking in literature.
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Cooking in literature. |
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Asian Americans -- Intellectual life.
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Asian Americans -- Intellectual life. |
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Asian Americans. |
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Asian Americans in literature.
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Asian Americans in literature. |
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Food habits -- Social aspects.
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Food habits -- Social aspects. |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Xu, Wenying. Eating identities. Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2008 9780824831950 0824831950 (DLC) 2007035581 (OCoLC)167514049 |
| ISBN |
9781435666771 (electronic book) |
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1435666771 (electronic book) |
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9780824862282 (electronic book) |
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0824862287 (electronic book) |
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9780824831950 (electronic book) |
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0824831950 (electronic book) |
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9780824878436 (electronic book) |
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0824878434 (electronic book) |
