Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature /

Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature / / Tomoko Aoyama.

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 thi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Aoyama, Tomoko,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 4 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Why Read Food in Modern Japanese Literature?
  • Chapter One. Food in the Diary
  • Chapter Two. Down-to-Earth Eating and Writing (1)
  • Chapter Three. Down-to-Earth Eating and Writing (2)
  • Chapter Four. Cannibalism in Modern Japanese Literature
  • Chapter Five. The Gastronomic Novel
  • Chapter Six. Food and Gender in Contemporary Women's Literature
  • Conclusion: Confessions of an Obsessive Textual Food Eater
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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