Consumption and identity in Asian American coming-of-age novels /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ho, Jennifer Ann, 1970-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, 2005.
Series:	Asian Americans.
Subjects:	American fiction > Asian American authors > History and criticism. Bildungsromans > History and criticism. Consumption (Economics) in literature. Asian Americans > Intellectual life. Identity (Psychology) in literature. Asian Americans in literature. Group identity in literature. Food habits in literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : feeding identity, subverting stereotypes : food and consumption in contemporary Asian American bildungsromane
Consuming Asian American history in Frank Chin's Donald Duk
To eat, to buy, to be : consumption as identity in Lois Ann Yamanaka's Wild meat and the Bully Burgers
Feeding the spirit : mourning for the mother(land) in Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge and Nora Okja Keller's Comfort woman
Fusion creations in Gus Lee's China boy and Gish Jen's Mona in the promised land
Conclusion : hungry for more?