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.
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.
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)
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 3 | NTU 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 Critic, 69(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 Humanities, 8(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