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Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature
Tomoko Aoyama
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Description for Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature
Hardcover. Analyzes a range of diverse writings that focus on food, eating, and cooking and considers how factors such as industrialization, urbanization, nationalism, and gender construction have affected people's relationships to food, nature, and culture, and to each other. Num Pages: 272 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH; JFCV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 590.
Literature, like food, is, in Terry Eagleton's words, ""endlessly interpretable,"" and food, like literature, ""looks like an object but is actually a relationship."" So how much do we, and should we, read into the way food is represented in literature? ""Reading Food"" explores this and other questions in an unusual and fascinating tour of twentieth-century Japanese literature. Tomoko Aoyama analyzes a wide range of diverse writings that focus on food, eating, and cooking and considers how factors such as industrialization, urbanization, nationalism, and gender construction have affected people's relationships to food, nature, and culture, and to each other. The examples ... Read more
Literature, like food, is, in Terry Eagleton's words, ""endlessly interpretable,"" and food, like literature, ""looks like an object but is actually a relationship."" So how much do we, and should we, read into the way food is represented in literature? ""Reading Food"" explores this and other questions in an unusual and fascinating tour of twentieth-century Japanese literature. Tomoko Aoyama analyzes a wide range of diverse writings that focus on food, eating, and cooking and considers how factors such as industrialization, urbanization, nationalism, and gender construction have affected people's relationships to food, nature, and culture, and to each other. The examples ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824832858
SKU
V9780824832858
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About Tomoko Aoyama
Tomoko Aoyama is senior lecturer in Japanese language and literature at the University of Queensland, Australia.
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