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Book/Printed Material Eating identities : reading food in Asian American literature

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Title

  • Eating identities : reading food in Asian American literature

Names

  • Xu, Wenying

Created / Published

  • Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2008]
  • ©2008

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.

Headings

  • -  American literature--Asian American authors--History and criticism
  • -  Asian Americans in literature
  • -  Asian Americans--Intellectual life
  • -  Cooking in literature
  • -  Dinners and dining in literature
  • -  Food habits in literature
  • -  Food habits--Social aspects
  • -  Gastronomy in literature

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-189) and index.
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 electronic resource (ix, 195 pages)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PS153.A84

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021758691

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  • Unrestricted online access

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Xu, Wenying. Eating identities: reading food in Asian American literature. [Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, ©, 2008] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021758691/.

APA citation style:

Xu, W. (2008) Eating identities: reading food in Asian American literature. [Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, ©] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021758691/.

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Xu, Wenying. Eating identities: reading food in Asian American literature. [Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, ©, 2008] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2021758691/>.