Eating identities : reading food in Asian American literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Xu, Wenying
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2008]
Subjects:	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.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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.