Eating Identities: Reading Food in Asian American Literature 9780824862282

The French epicure and gastronome Brillat-Savarin declared, "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Enjoyment and Ethnic Identity in No-No Boy and Obasan
2. Masculinity, Food, and Appetite in Frank Chin’s Donald Duk and “The Eat and Run Midnight People”
3. Class and Cuisine in David Wong Louie’s The Barbarians Are Coming
4. Diaspora, Transcendentalism, and Ethnic Gastronomy in the Works of Li-Young Lee
5. Sexuality, Colonialism, and Ethnicity in Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt and Mei Ng’s Eating Chinese Food Naked
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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