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Publication details [#52265]

Morris, Robyn. 2008. Food, race and the power of recuperative identity politics within Asian Australian women's fiction. Journal of Australian Studies 32 (4) : 499–508.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

fiction1 | identity negotiation | migration | race | women's language

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper explores whether the Asian Australian women's fiction of Lillian Ng, Simone Lazaroo and Hsu-Ming Teo, challenges the idea of a monolithic national identity which equates Australian multiculturalism with eating or tasting whilst abnegating the other.