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

Food is one of the cultural goods that travel in the global networks of diaspora. It conveys notions and memories of home, community and identity for those living in two (or more) locations. In diasporic and/or transnational writing, the preparation and consumption of food often appear as a way of m...

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Main Authors: Ahmad, Siti Nuraishah, Ramlan, Wan Nur Madiha
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spelling my.iium.irep.652532019-03-06T08:18:29Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/65253/ 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) Food is one of the cultural goods that travel in the global networks of diaspora. It conveys notions and memories of home, community and identity for those living in two (or more) locations. In diasporic and/or transnational writing, the preparation and consumption of food often appear as a way of maintaining or examining one’s ties with the homeland. 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 a study of how food is deployed in the writers’ search for ‘home’. Yahp’s memoir of “food, family and home” explores how food and memories of eating mediate her sense of ‘home’ as a person who is designated an Other in her homeland of Malaysia. 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. Avtar Brah’s study of ‘home’ in the context of diaspora and recent studies of food in diasporic fiction and cultural studies provide the concepts which this paper employs in reading Yahp and Pung’s memoirs. 2018-07-09 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/65253/8/2018.7.9%20In%20search%20of%20home%20in%20the%20transnational%20imaginary.docx Ahmad, Siti Nuraishah and Ramlan, Wan Nur Madiha (2018) In search of 'home' in the transnational imaginary: food, roots, and routes in memoirs by Asian Australian women writers. In: International Conference on Literature 2018 (ICL), 25th-26th July 2018, Penang. (Unpublished) http://icl.usm.my/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=282&Itemid=516
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Ahmad, Siti Nuraishah
Ramlan, Wan Nur Madiha
In search of 'home' in the transnational imaginary: food, roots, and routes in memoirs by Asian Australian women writers
description Food is one of the cultural goods that travel in the global networks of diaspora. It conveys notions and memories of home, community and identity for those living in two (or more) locations. In diasporic and/or transnational writing, the preparation and consumption of food often appear as a way of maintaining or examining one’s ties with the homeland. 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 a study of how food is deployed in the writers’ search for ‘home’. Yahp’s memoir of “food, family and home” explores how food and memories of eating mediate her sense of ‘home’ as a person who is designated an Other in her homeland of Malaysia. 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. Avtar Brah’s study of ‘home’ in the context of diaspora and recent studies of food in diasporic fiction and cultural studies provide the concepts which this paper employs in reading Yahp and Pung’s memoirs.
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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
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