Consumption and identity in Asian American coming-of-age novels /
Jennifer Ann Ho.
- 1 online resource (213 pages).
- Studies in Asian Americans .
- Asian Americans. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-196) and index.
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.
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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.