Xu, Wenying.

Eating identities reading food in Asian American literature / [electronic resource] : Wenying Xu. - Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2008. - ix, 195 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-189) and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






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


Electronic books.

PS153.A84 / X8 2008

810.9/3559