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Consumption and identity in Asian American coming-of-age novels / Jennifer Ann Ho.
Van Pelt Library PS153.A84 H58 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ho, Jennifer Ann, 1970-
- Series:
- Asian Americans
- Studies in Asian Americans
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--Asian American authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Bildungsromans--History and criticism.
- Bildungsromans.
- Consumption (Economics) in literature.
- Asian Americans--Intellectual life.
- Asian Americans.
- Identity (Psychology) in literature.
- Asian Americans in literature.
- Group identity in literature.
- Food habits in literature.
- American fiction--Asian American authors.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 202 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2005.
- Contents:
- Introduction : feeding identity, subverting stereotypes : food and consumption in contemporary Asian American bildungsromane
- Consuming Asian American history in Frank Chin's Donald Duk
- To eat, to buy, to be : consumption as identity in Lois Ann Yamanaka's Wild meat and the Bully Burgers
- Feeding the spirit : mourning for the mother(land) in Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge and Nora Okja Keller's Comfort woman
- Fusion creations in Gus Lee's China boy and Gish Jen's Mona in the promised land
- Conclusion : hungry for more?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-196) and index.
- ISBN:
- 041597206X
- OCLC:
- 56104001
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