Eating Identities: Reading Food in Asian American Literature

Unlike most sociological studies, which center on empirical analyses of the relationship between food and society, it focuses on how food practices influence psychological and ontological formations and thus contributes significantly to the growing field of food studies. For students of literature,...

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Main Author: Xu, Wenying (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu University of Hawaii Press [2007]
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Online Access:DE-859
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DE-739
DE-473
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Summary:Unlike most sociological studies, which center on empirical analyses of the relationship between food and society, it focuses on how food practices influence psychological and ontological formations and thus contributes significantly to the growing field of food studies. For students of literature, this tantalizing work offers an illuminating lesson on how to read the multivalent meanings of food and eating in literary texts
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Jan 2018)
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9780824862282

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