Consumption and Identity in Asian American Coming-of-Age Novels

ISBN-13: 9780415972062 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 212 str.

Jennifer Ho

Opis

This inter-disciplinary study examines the theme of consumption in Asian American literature, connection representations of cooking and eating with ethnic identity formation.

Spis treści

Introduction: Feeding Identity, Subverting Stereotypes: Food and Consumption in Contemporary Asian American Bildungsromane 1. Consuming Asian American History in Frank Chin's Donald Duk 2. To Eat, To Buy, To Be: Consumption as Identity in Lois Ann Yamanaka's Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers 3. Feeding the Spirit: Mourning for the Mother(land) in Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge and Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman 4. Fusion Creations in Gus Lee's China Boy and Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land Conclusion: Hungry for More?

O autorze

Jennifer Ann Ho