Food issues 食事. Interdisciplinary Studies on Food in Modern and Contemporary East Asia concentrates on the relationship among food, culture, literature, and language in a comparative, transcultural, or literary perspective. The contributions investigate these aspects from different approaches: historical, sociological, anthropological, religious, linguistic, and want to deepen issues such as the symbolic value of food; food as an essential element for the construction of individual identity and a sign of belonging to a community; food as an intercultural medium; food as language and the language of food. The articles included in the volume are organized in a Japanese and a Chinese section and use different approaches within humanities disciplines to explore topics ranging from classical and contemporary East Asian literature to present-day issues, focusing on Food Culture and its declinations.
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Chiara Ghidini
Japanese shōjin ryōri: the green competition from Buddhist temples to TV showspp.13-24
Yuki Sasaki
作品 『壁』における の表象 - 安 公房はその文学に をどう描いたか / Representation of food in the collection of works Kabe: How Abe Kōbō wrote about food in the literaturepp.25-44
Natsuki Yamada
手塚治虫とグルメマンガをつなぐもの―「あしたのジョー」の減量 / The one which connects a gourmet cartoon with Osamu Tezuka: Cutting of Joe of tomorrowpp.45-58
Makiko Yamasaki
村上春樹作品における〈 〉と〈性〉– 初期作品と阪神淡 大 地 以後の作品との比 を して / “Food” and “Sex” in Murakami Haruki’s literaturepp.59-75
Francesco Eugenio Barbieri
Digesting the foreign. Food and Eating in the works of Tawada Yōkopp.77-92
Felice Farina
The politics of washoku: Japan’s gastronationalism and gastrodiplomacypp.93-107
Mario De Grandis, Filippo Costantini
Negotiating with the tradition: representations of fish in Alai’s fictional writingpp.111-125
Serena De Marchi
Eat to remember. Gastronomical reconfigurations of hunger and imprisonment in contemporary Chinese literaturepp.127-142
Chiara Bertulessi, Emma Lupano, Bettina Mottura, Natalia Riva, Yunqi Zhou
The languages of wine: negotiating intercultural exchanges through translationpp.143-160
Elena Morandi
The “dining table revolution” in China: the question read through the lens of newspaperspp.161-176
Cristiana Turini
Looking at China’s cultural complexity. Food, colours and ritual: sensuous epistemology and the construction of identity in the “other” Chinapp.177-193
Book Title
Food issues 食事
Book Subtitle
Interdisciplinary Studies on Food in Modern and Contemporary East Asia
Editors
Miriam Castorina, Diego Cucinelli
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
202
Publication Year
2021
Copyright Information
© 2021 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-506-6
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-505-9
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-506-6
eISBN (epub)
978-88-5518-507-3
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919