BOOKS by Wenying Xu

Eating Identities: Reading Food in Asian American Literature more books like this

by Wenying Xu

The French epicure and gastronome Brillat-Savarin declared, "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are." Wenying Xu infuses this notion with cultural-political energy by extending it to an ethnic group known for its cuisines: Asian Americans.She begins with the general argument that eating is a means of becoming - not simply in the ...

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Ethics and Aesthetics of Freedom in American and Chinese Realism more books like this

by Wenying Xu

The goal of this monograph is to complicate the postmodernist argument that art is always already political and does so by studying literary realism as practiced by American and Chinese writers, utilizing the perspective of Michel Foucault. It performs a careful reading of Henry James's "The Portrait of a Lady" and "The Princess Casamassima", ...

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