In search of home in the transnational imaginary: food, roots, and routes in memoirs by Asian Australian women writers

For many people, food conveys notions and memories of home, community and identity. In a transnational world, these relations have become more pronounced as food is one the cultural goods that travel in the global networks of human migration and mobility. In diasporic and/or transnational writing, t...

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Main Authors:	Ahmad, Siti Nuraishah, Ramlan, Wan Nur Madiha
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Published:	National Chengchi University 2019
Subjects:	PN Literature (General)
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spelling	iium-732192019-08-20T01:50:34Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/73219/ In search of home in the transnational imaginary: food, roots, and routes in memoirs by Asian Australian women writers Ahmad, Siti Nuraishah Ramlan, Wan Nur Madiha PN Literature (General) For many people, food conveys notions and memories of home, community and identity. In a transnational world, these relations have become more pronounced as food is one the cultural goods that travel in the global networks of human migration and mobility. In diasporic and/or transnational writing, the preparation and consumption of food often appear as ways of maintaining or examining one's ties with "home." This paper takes the memoirs of two Asian Australian women writers, Beth Yahp's Eat First, Talk Later (2015) and Alice Pung's Unpolished Gem (2006), as the basis for exploring how food is deployed in the writers' search for "home" and belonging as transnational subjects. Yahp's memoir sets out how food and memories of eating mediate her sense of "home" as a person who is designated an Other in Malaysia and Australia. In Alice Pung's memoirs, food acts as metaphor for her unease and anxiety as an Asian Australian growing up in a homeland that does not quite embrace her and in the shadow of another homeland that keeps her under surveillance across time and space. Using Avtar Brah's notion of a homing desire, and concepts of authenticity and hybridity explored through food in literary and cultural studies, this paper examines the ways that the selected memoirs deploy food to interrogate the practices of inclusion and exclusion that are part of the making of a sense of "home," and how good facilitates new ways of belonging in a transnational world. National Chengchi University 2019-06 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/73219/13/73219%20In%20Search%20of%20%20Home.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/73219/19/73219_In%20search%20of%20%E2%80%9CHome%E2%80%9D%20in%20the%20transnational%20imaginary_scopus.pdf Ahmad, Siti Nuraishah and Ramlan, Wan Nur Madiha (2019) In search of home in the transnational imaginary: food, roots, and routes in memoirs by Asian Australian women writers. The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture, 12 (2). pp. 103-127. ISSN 2077-1282 E-ISSN 2077-1290 https://www.wreview.org/attachments/article/320/In%20Search%20of%20Home%20in%20the%20Transnational%20Imaginary.pdf
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description	For many people, food conveys notions and memories of home, community and identity. In a transnational world, these relations have become more pronounced as food is one the cultural goods that travel in the global networks of human migration and mobility. In diasporic and/or transnational writing, the preparation and consumption of food often appear as ways of maintaining or examining one's ties with "home." This paper takes the memoirs of two Asian Australian women writers, Beth Yahp's Eat First, Talk Later (2015) and Alice Pung's Unpolished Gem (2006), as the basis for exploring how food is deployed in the writers' search for "home" and belonging as transnational subjects. Yahp's memoir sets out how food and memories of eating mediate her sense of "home" as a person who is designated an Other in Malaysia and Australia. In Alice Pung's memoirs, food acts as metaphor for her unease and anxiety as an Asian Australian growing up in a homeland that does not quite embrace her and in the shadow of another homeland that keeps her under surveillance across time and space. Using Avtar Brah's notion of a homing desire, and concepts of authenticity and hybridity explored through food in literary and cultural studies, this paper examines the ways that the selected memoirs deploy food to interrogate the practices of inclusion and exclusion that are part of the making of a sense of "home," and how good facilitates new ways of belonging in a transnational world.
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author	Ahmad, Siti Nuraishah Ramlan, Wan Nur Madiha
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title	In search of home in the transnational imaginary: food, roots, and routes in memoirs by Asian Australian women writers
title_short	In search of home in the transnational imaginary: food, roots, and routes in memoirs by Asian Australian women writers
title_full	In search of home in the transnational imaginary: food, roots, and routes in memoirs by Asian Australian women writers
title_fullStr	In search of home in the transnational imaginary: food, roots, and routes in memoirs by Asian Australian women writers
title_full_unstemmed	In search of home in the transnational imaginary: food, roots, and routes in memoirs by Asian Australian women writers
title_sort	in search of home in the transnational imaginary: food, roots, and routes in memoirs by asian australian women writers
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In search of home in the transnational imaginary: food, roots, and routes in memoirs by Asian Australian women writers

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