Consumption And Identity In Asian American Coming-of-age Novels (studies In Asian Americans)
by Jennifer Ho /
2004 / English / PDF
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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.
