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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790548503321

Autore

Ho Jennifer Ann <1970-, >

Titolo

Consumption and identity in Asian American coming-of-age novels / / Jennifer Ann Ho

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-135-46919-9

0-203-95843-8

0-415-64694-4

1-135-46912-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 202 p.)

Collana

Studies in Asian Americans

Disciplina

813.009/895

Soggetti

American fiction - Asian American authors - History and criticism

Bildungsromans, American - History and criticism

Consumption (Economics) in literature

Asian Americans - Intellectual life

Identity (Psychology) in literature

Asian Americans in literature

Group identity in literature

Food habits in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-196) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.