Eating identities : reading food in Asian American literature
Through the examination of the work of several writers, the author explores how cooking, eating, and food are representative of Asian American identities in terms of race and ethnicity, gender, class, diaspora, and sexuality. She considers the relationship between food and identities in literature by John Okada, Joy Kogawa, Frank Chin, Li-Young Lee, David Wong Louie, Mei Ng, and Monique Truong, and how their narratives are sites of economic, cultural, and political struggle
Print Book, English, ©2008
University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, ©2008
Criticism, interpretation, etc
ix, 195 pages ; 23 cm
9780824831950, 0824831950
167514049
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