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Author:
LeMesurier, Jennifer Lin, 1985- author.
Title:
Inscrutable eating : Asian appetites and the rhetorics of racial consumption / Jennifer Lin LeMesurier.
Publisher:
The Ohio State University Press,
Copyright Date:
2023
Description:
xviii, 152 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Asian Americans--Social aspects.--Social aspects.
Food--Social aspects--United States.
Food habits--Social aspects--United States.
Food habits--Cross-cultural studies.
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Asian Americans--Ethnic identity.
Rhetoric--Social aspects.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-145) and index.
Contents:
Gut orientations -- Rat eaters : defining American masculinity in opposition to Asian deviance -- Bat lovers : the threat of Asian appetites to US national embodiment -- MSG users : phantasies of health as race neutral -- "Too sensitive" speakers : the limits on Asian emotion in the public sphere -- Conclusion: Unmooring habits of taste.
Summary:
"Drawing on rhetorical theory, affect theory, and Asian American studies, LeMesurier analyzes US folk songs, cartoons, news, and social media about Asian eating to investigate how the rhetorical framing of food and eating underpins our understanding of race and gender in contemporary America"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Intersectional rhetorics
ISBN:
0814215378
9780814215371
0814258670
9780814258675
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1348139916
LCCN:
2022045095
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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