Sökning: "Man Ting Yiu"

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  1. 1. “Are We What We Eat?” Negotiating Identities Through Cuisine and Consumption : A Thing Theory Approach to Alison Wong’s As The Earth Turns Silver

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Man Ting Yiu; [2018]
    Nyckelord :Thing Theory; Materiality; Food; Objects; Cuisine; Consumption; Culinary Narrative; Diaspora; Transcultural; Hybridity; Intersectionality; Transference; Craft; Creative Writing;

    Sammanfattning : Culinary narratives are frequently employed to portray migrant identities and societies in Asian diaspora literature This thesis examines cuisine and consumption in Alison Wong’s As The Earth Turns Silver by highlighting the socio-political linkages between material culture and ethnic identity formation of Chinese migrants in New Zealand. Using Brown’s thing theory, food is reframed as site of meaningful discourse to interrogate the role of cuisine and consumption in mediating the migrant experience. LÄS MER