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Food Fiction: A Creative Writing & Storytelling Course (SP0027)

A guide to resources for students enrolled in the creative writing course, Food Fiction.

Access to Digital Resources

The resources in this course's reading list includes digital resources available only at NIE Library (such as ebooks).

NIE students have both on-site and off-site access to NIE Library's electronic resources.

If you are an NTU student, please note that your access to NIE Library's ebooks will be limited to on-site access only. To access NIE Library's electronic resources, please use one of the research stations in the Common Research room at NIE Library. Please approach a librarian at the information service desk if you have any queries about using a station in our Common Research room.

Course Reading List

Abbott, H. P. (2008). The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative. Cambridge University Press.

Print: NIE Library | NTU Library

 

Hemley, R. (2006). Turning Life into Fiction. Macmillan.

Scanned Book (Archive.org): Copy 1 | Copy 2

Ang, A., Lim, D. W. J., & Tse, H. G. (Eds). (2020). Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet. Landmark Books.

Print: NIE Library


Chiew, E. (2015). Cooked Up: Food Fiction from around the World. New Internationalist Publications. Ltd.

Ebook: NIE Library

Print: NTU Library

Lahiri, J. (1999). A Temporary Matter. In Interpreter of Maladies. Mariner Books.

Print: NIE Library | NTU Library

Audiobook: NTU Library

Ebook: NLB Overdrive (8 copies)

 

Lim, C. (1980).  Durian. In Or Else, the Lightning God and Other Stories. Heinemann Educational Books

Print: NIE Library | NTU Library 1 | NTU Library 2

 

Pillai, A. D. (2021). How do you want your dumplings? In Ang, A., Lim, D. W. J., Tse, H. G. (Eds). (2020). Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet. Landmark Books.

Print: NIE Library

Divakaruni, D. (1998). The Mistress of Spices: A Novel. Anchor. 

Print: NIE Library | NTU Library 

Ebook: NLB Overdrive (5 copies)

Gilbert, E. (2007). Eat, Pray, Love. ‎Riverhead Books.

Print: NIE Library | NTU Library 1 | NTU Library 2

Ebook: NLB Overdrive (7 copies)

 

Tan, A. (1989). Joy Luck Club. Penguin Books.

Print: NIE Library 1 | NIE Library 2 | NIE Library 3NTU Library 1 | NTU Library 2 | NTU Library 3

Ebook: NLB Overdrive (45 copies)

Video Recording: NIE Library | NTU Library

Baldwin, D. (2006). Gluttony? Food and Wine in Evelyn Waugh's" Brideshead Revisited". CEA Critic69(1/2), 34-42.

Article: NIE Library | NTU Library

 

Chatterjee, K. (2016). Negotiating Homelessness through Culinary Imagination: The Metaphor of Food in Jhumpa Lahiris “Interpreter of Maladies”. Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities8(1), 197-205.

Article: Open Access 

 

Ling, N. M., Hoon, A. L., & Chee, L. K. (2015). Malaysian Chinese New Year dishes nomenclature. Malaysian Journal of Languages and Linguistics (MJLL)4(2), 52-63.

Article: Open Access

 

Mead, M. (2012). Why do we Overeat? In Food and Culture (pp. 33-36). Routledge

 

O’Brien, C. (2014). The taste of class: Colonial Australian food writing, fact or fiction? TEXT 18, no. Special 26: 1-9.

Article: Open Access

 

Pugliese, C. (2018). Dangerous appetites: Food and deception in ‘Amundsen’ In Alice Munro and the Anatomy of the Short Story, 129.

Ebook: NIE Library

 

Sceats, S. (2000). Food, consumption and the body in contemporary women's fiction. Cambridge University Press.

Ebook: NIE Library

Print: NTU Library

 

Whitt, J. B. (2011). An appetite for metaphor: Food imagery and cultural identity In Indian fiction. East Carolina University.

Theses & Dissertations: NIE Library | NTU Library