1st Edition

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

By Jennifer Ho Copyright 2005
    212 Pages
    by Routledge

    212 Pages
    by Routledge

    This interdisciplinary study examines the theme of consumption in Asian American literature, connection representations of cooking and eating with ethnic identity formation. Using four discrete modes of identification--historic pride, consumerism, mourning, and fusion--Jennifer Ho examines how Asian American adolescents challenge and revise their cultural legacies and experiment with alternative ethnic affiliations through their relationships to food.

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

    Biography

    Jennifer Ann Ho