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.

introduction Feeding Identity, Subverting Stereotypes: Food and Consumption in Contemporary Asian American Bildungsromane; Chapter 1 Consuming Asian American History in Frank Chin's Donald Duk; Chapter 2 To Eat, To Buy, To Be: Consumption as Identity in Lois Ann Yamanaka's Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers; Chapter 3 Feeding the Spirit: Mourning for the Mother (land) in Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge and Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman; Chapter 4 Fusion Creations in Gus Lee's China Boy and Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land; conclusion Hungry for More?;