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1 online resource (213 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in Asian Americans
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Asian Americans.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Feeding Identity, Subverting Stereotypes: Food and Consumption in Contemporary Asian American Bildungsromane; Chapter One Consuming Asian American History in Frank Chin's Donald Duk; Chapter Two To Eat, To Buy, To Be: Consumption as Identity in Lois Ann Yamanaka's Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers; Chapter Three Feeding the Spirit: Mourning for the Mother(land) in Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge and Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman. |
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Chapter Four Fusion Creations in Gus Lee's China Boy and Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised LandConclusion Hungry for More?; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
This inter-disciplinary study examines the theme of consumption in Asian American literature, connection representations of cooking and eating with ethnic identity formation. Using four discrete modes of identification--historic pride, consumerism, mourning, and fusion--Jennifer Ho examines how Asian American adolescents challenge and revise their cultural legacies and experiment with alternative ethnic affiliations through their relationships to food. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American fiction -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- Asian American authors. |
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Bildungsromans, American -- History and criticism.
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Bildungsromans, American. |
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Consumption (Economics) in literature.
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Consumption (Economics) 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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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature. |
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Asian Americans in literature.
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Asian Americans in literature. |
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Group identity in literature.
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Group identity in literature. |
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Food habits in literature.
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Food habits in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ho, Jennifer. Consumption and Identity in Asian American Coming-of-Age Novels. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2013 9780415972062 |
| ISBN |
9781135469122 (electronic book) |
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1135469121 (electronic book) |
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