Rethinking Chicana/o Literature through Food [electronic resource] : Postnational Appetites /
Soler, Nieves Pascual.editor.
Abarca, Meredith E.editor.
As Food Studies has grown into a well-established field, literary scholars have not fully addressed the prevalent themes of food, eating, and consumption in Chicana/o literature. Here, contributors propose food consciousness as a paradigm to examine the literary discourses of Chicana/o authors as they shift from the nation to the postnation.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Translatable Foods; Chapter 1 Diabetes, Culture, and Food: Posthumanist Nutrition in the Gloria Anzaldúa Archive; Chapter 2 Bologna Tacos and Kitchen Slaves: Food and Identity in Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo; Chapter 3 Food Journeys in Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation and Woman Hollering Creek; Part II The Taste of Authenticity; Chapter 4 "Because Feeding Is the Beginning and End": Food Politics in Ana Castillo's So Far from God
Chapter 5 Food, Consciousness, and Feminism in Denise Chávez's Loving Pedro InfantePart III The Voice of Hunger; Chapter 6 Families Who Eat Together, Stay Together: But Should They?; Chapter 7 "La Comida y La Conciencia": Foods in the Counter-Poetics of Lorna Dee Cervantes; Chapter 8 Hungers and Desires: Borderlands Appetites and Fulfillment; Part IV Machos or Cooks; Chapter 9 Chicano Culinarius: From Cowboys to Gastronomes; Chapter 10 Mexican Meat Matzah Balls: Burciaga as a Culinary Ambassador; Chapter 11 Reading the Taco Shop Poets in the Crossroads of Chicano Postnationalism
Notes on ContributorsIndex
Includes index.
As Food Studies has grown into a well-established field, literary scholars have not fully addressed the prevalent themes of food, eating, and consumption in Chicana/o literature. Here, contributors propose food consciousness as a paradigm to examine the literary discourses of Chicana/o authors as they shift from the nation to the postnation.
America-Literatures.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Ethnology-Latin America.
North American Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Latin American Culture.