Food issues : : interdisciplinary studies on food in modern and contemporary East Asia / / Miriam Castorina, Diego Cucinelli.

• VerfasserIn: Castorina, Miriam,; Cucinelli, Diego,
• TeilnehmendeR: Cucinelli, Diego,
• Place / Publishing House: Firenze : : Firenze University Press,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (202 pages)

Food issues. Interdisciplinary Studies on Food in Modern and Contemporary East Asia concentrates on the relationship among food, culture, literature, and language in a comparative, transcultural, or literary perspective. The contributions investigate these aspects from different approaches: historical, sociological, anthropological, religious, linguistic, and want to deepen issues such as the symbolic value of food; food as an essential element for the construction of individual identity and a sign of belonging to a community; food as an intercultural medium; food as language and the language of food. The articles included in the volume are organized in a Japanese and a Chinese section and use different approaches within humanities disciplines to explore topics ranging from classical and contemporary East Asian literature to present-day issues, focusing on Food Culture and its declinations.

Table of Contents

Title page -- 3 -- copyright page -- 4 -- table of contents -- 5 -- Preface -- 7 -- Japanese studies -- 11 -- the green competition from Buddhist temples to TV shows -- 13 -- 作品集壁における食の表象安部公房はその文学に食をどう描いたか -- 25 -- Tezuka Osamus Gourmet Manga -- 45 -- Digesting the foreign Food and Eating in the works of Tawada Yōko -- 77 -- Japans gastronationalism and gastrodiplomacy -- 93 -- Chinese Studies -- 109 -- representations of fish in Alais fictional writing -- 111 -- Eat to remember Gastronomical reconfigurations of hunger and imprisonment in contemporary Chinese literature -- 127 -- negotiating intercultural exchanges through translation -- 143 -- the question read through the lens of newspapers -- 161 -- sensuous epistemology and the construction of identity in the other China -- 177.