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Eating Identities - Reading Food in Asian American Literature
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University of Hawai'i Press
Sivumäärä: 260 sivua
Asu: Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Julkaisuvuosi: 2007, 30.11.2007 (lisätietoa)
Kieli: Englanti
The French epicure and gastronome Brillat-Savarin declared, ""Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are."" Wenying Xu infuses this notion with cultural-political energy by extending it to an ethnic group known for its cuisines: Asian Americans.She begins with the general argument that eating is a means of becoming - not simply in the sense of nourishment but more importantly of what we choose to eat, what we can afford to eat, what we secretly crave but are ashamed to eat in front of others, and how we eat. Food, as the most significant medium of traffic between the inside and outside of our bodies, organizes, signifies, and legitimates our sense of self and distinguishes us from others, who practice different foodways.Narrowing her scope, Xu reveals how cooking, eating, and food fashion Asian American identities in terms of race/ethnicity, gender, class, diaspora, and sexuality. She 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) and places these identity issues in the fascinating spaces of food, hunger, consumption, appetite, desire, and orality. Asian American literature abounds in culinary metaphors and references, but few scholars have made sense of them in a meaningful way.

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