Acknowledgements Abstract Introduction Literary Food Studies in Asian American Literature Abject Food and Chinese Immigrants in US Culture Book Structure Chapter 1 The Pleasure and Pain of Eating: Abjection and Incorporation of Mothers and Daughters in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club Rejecting the Joy Luck Club Consuming Animals: From Gross to Abject The Acceptance of Abject Maternity Conclusion Chapter 2 "Fish Skull? No Way!" Food and Chinese American Masculinity in Gish Jen's Typical American Gender Performativity in "Manful" Eating Eating Food, Eating Women Cooking and Feminist Resistance in Typical American Conclusion Chapter 3 Inside the Abattoir: Meat and Transnational Politics of Women in Ruth Ozeki's My Year of Meats Edible Women in Appetites of Macho Carnivores Eating Disorder and Mothering in Transnational Feminist Alliance Conclusion Chapter 4 The Myth of Bourgeois Intimacy: Food, Colonial Desire and Queer Diaspora in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt Devouring Asian Body The Servant's Hands: Destabilizing Colonial Order Queering the Kitchen Conclusion Chapter 5 "That Chinese guy is where you go if you want egg foo yung": Construction and Subversion of Exotic Culinary Authenticity in David Wong Louie's The Barbarians Are Coming US Construction of Exotic Appetites The Myth of Egg Foo Yung Cooking "Real" Chinese Food Conclusion Bibliography
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