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1 electronic resource (ix, 195 pages) |
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-189) and index. |
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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. |
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Description based on print version record; resource not viewed. |
| Summary |
'Eating Identities' is the first book to link food to a wide range of Asian American concerns such as race and sexuality. Xu provides lucid and informed interpretations of seven Asian American writers (John Okada, Joy Kogawa, Frank Chin, Li-Young Lee, David Wong Louie, Mei Ng, and Monique Truong), revealing how cooking, eating, and food fashion Asian American identities in terms of race/ethnicity, gender, class, diaspora, and sexuality. Most literary critics perceive alimentary references as narrative strategies or part of the background; Xu takes food as the central site of cultural and political struggles waged in the seemingly private domain of desire in the lives of Asian Americans. For students of literature, this tantalizing work offers an illuminating lesson on how to read the multivalent meanings of food and eating in literary texts. |
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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
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Open Access EbpS |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English. |
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| Subject |
American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism.
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Asian Americans in literature.
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Asian Americans -- Intellectual life.
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Cooking in literature.
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Dinners and dining in literature.
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Food habits in literature.
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Food habits -- Social aspects.
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Gastronomy in literature.
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Littérature américaine -- Auteurs américains d'origine asiatique -- Histoire et critique.
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Gastronomie dans la littérature.
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Habitudes alimentaires dans la littérature.
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Américains d'origine asiatique -- Vie intellectuelle.
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Américains d'origine asiatique dans la littérature.
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Habitudes alimentaires -- Aspect social.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- Asian American.
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American literature -- Asian American authors
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Asian Americans in literature
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Asian Americans -- Intellectual life
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Cooking in literature
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Dinners and dining in literature
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Food habits in literature
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Food habits -- Social aspects
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Gastronomy in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| In: |
Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR |
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OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Eating identities Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2008. 9780824831950 (pbk. : alk. paper) (DLC) 2007035581 |
| ISBN |
0824831950 pbk. : alk. paper |
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9780824831950 pbk. : alk. paper |
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9781435666771 (electronic bk.) |
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1435666771 (electronic bk.) |
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9780824862282 (electronic bk.) |
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0824862287 (electronic bk.) |
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9780824878436 (electronic bk.) |
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0824878434 (electronic bk.) |
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AU@ 000048564030 |
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AU@ 000051545319 |
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AU@ 000068770871 |
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CHNEW 001035190 |
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CHVBK 556236513 |
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DEBBG BV043111507 |
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DEBBG BV044114284 |
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DEBSZ 422091138 |
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GBVCP 1003597920 |
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NZ1 13865339 |
