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Dubious Gastronomy: The Cultural Politics of Eating Asian in the USA (Food in Asia and the Pacific)
Robert Ji-Song Ku
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Description for Dubious Gastronomy: The Cultural Politics of Eating Asian in the USA (Food in Asia and the Pacific)
Hardcover. Series: Food in Asia and the Pacific. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
By exploring the other side of what is prescriptively understood as proper Asian gastronomy, Robert Ji-Song Ku suggests that Asian cultural expressions occurring in places such as Los Angeles, Honolulu, New York City, and even Baton Rouge are no less critical to understanding the meaning of Asian food - and, by extension, Asian people - than culinary expressions that took place in Tokyo, Seoul, and Shanghai centuries ago. In critically considering the impure and hybridized with serious and oft en whimsical intent, Dubious Gastronomy argues that while the notion of cultural authenticity is troubled, troubling, and troublesome, the apocryphal is ... Read more
By exploring the other side of what is prescriptively understood as proper Asian gastronomy, Robert Ji-Song Ku suggests that Asian cultural expressions occurring in places such as Los Angeles, Honolulu, New York City, and even Baton Rouge are no less critical to understanding the meaning of Asian food - and, by extension, Asian people - than culinary expressions that took place in Tokyo, Seoul, and Shanghai centuries ago. In critically considering the impure and hybridized with serious and oft en whimsical intent, Dubious Gastronomy argues that while the notion of cultural authenticity is troubled, troubling, and troublesome, the apocryphal is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Univ Hawaii Pr
Condition
New
Series
Food in Asia and the Pacific
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824839215
SKU
V9780824839215
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About Robert Ji-Song Ku
Robert Ji-Song Ku is associate professor of Asian American studies at Binghamton University of the State University of New York, USA.
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