Unsettling appetites: Asian American women writing food and subjectivity.

详细信息   

• 作者：Williams ; Laura Anh.
• 学历：Doctor
• 年：2010
• 导师：Sagar,Aparajita,eadvisorFriedman,Geraldineecommittee memberHughes,Shaunecommittee memberNguyen,Bichecommittee member
• 毕业院校：Purdue University
• Department：English.
• ISBN：9781124563770
• CBH：3449411
• Country：USA
• 语种：English
• FileSize：3252449
• Pages：238

文摘

This dissertation focuses on narratives centered on culinary and consuming practices in contemporary Asian North American literature as fruitful texts that negotiate the complexities of race,gender,embodiment,and belonging. This dissertation examines an archive of texts employing gastronomic motifs not as articulations of race or ethnicity,but as disrupting and complicating processes of assimilation and consumption typically associated with Asian populations in North America. Specifically,this project is interested in texts that relish problematic food practices,the unappetizing and the seemingly inedible,as productive sites of resistance and survival for marginalized subjectivities. Drawing on not only ethnic American criticism,but also feminist theory,queer theory,animal studies,postcolonial theory,and queer ecocriticism,my research complicates binaries often explored in Asian American studies of cultural assimilation vs. resistance,that are often articulated through metaphors of consumption: incorporation vs. abjection. Drawing on a variety of texts which includes Ruth Ozekis novel My Year of Meats 1998),Nora Okja Kellers novels Comfort Woman 1997) and Fox Girl 2002),Bich Minh Nguyens memoir Stealing Buddhas Dinner 2007),June Kims manga-style graphic novel 12 Days 2006),and Patty Changs video and performance art,this project suggests that unsettling and at times repulsive culinary practices can function as strategies for subjectivity formation for disempowered racialized subjects.