Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ku, Robert Ji-Song
• Manalansan, Martin F
• Mannur, Anita
• Robert Ji-Song Ku
• Anita Mannur
• Martin F. Manalansan

Titel

Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

New York: NYU Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Chop suey. Sushi. Curry. Adobo. Kimchi. The deep associations Asians in the United States have with food have become ingrained in the American popular imagination. So much so that contentious notions of ethnic authenticity and authority are marked by and argued around images and ideas of food.Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Readercollects burgeoning new scholarship in Asian American Studies that centers the study of foodways and culinary practices in our understanding of the racialized underpinnings of Asian Americanness. It does so by bringing together twenty scholars from across the disciplinary spectrum to inaugurate a new turn in food studies: the refusal to yield to a superficial multiculturalism that naively celebrates difference and reconciliation through the pleasures of food and eating. By focusing on multi-sited struggles across various spaces and times, the contributors to this anthology bring into focus the potent forces of class, racial, ethnic, sexual and gender inequalities that pervade and persist in the production of Asian American culinary and alimentary practices, ideas, and images. This is the first collection to consider the fraught itineraries of Asian American immigrant histories and how they are inscribed in the production and dissemination of ideas about Asian American foodways.Robert Ji-Song Kuis Associate Professor of Asian and Asian American Studies at Binghamton University. He is the author ofDubious Gastronomy: The Cultural Politics of Eating Asian in the USA.Martin F. Manalansan IVis Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author ofGlobal Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora.Anita Mannuris Associate Professor of English and Asian /Asian American Studies at Miami University. She is the author ofCulinary Fictions: Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture.