Laura Esquivel's Mexican fictions
By: [edited by] Elizabeth Moore Willingham.
Contributors: Willingham, Elizabeth M.
Publisher: TCU Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Fort Worth, Tex
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780875653884
Subjects: Esquivel, Laura, -- 1950- -- Criticism and interpretation; Esquivel, Laura, -- 1950-; Mexico -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes one essay in both the original Spanish and English translation.
Table of contents: title: A biography of Laura Esquivel / Linda Ledford-Miller; title: An introduction to Esquivel criticism / Elizabeth M. Willingham; title: Laura Esquivel's Mexican chocolate / Elena Poniatowska ; translated by Manuel Muñoz and Elizabeth M. Willingham; title: El chocolate mexicano de Laura Esquivel / Elena Poniatowska; title: Crossing gender borders : subversion of cinematic melodrama in Like water for chocolate / Patrick Duffey; title: Unmasked men : sex roles in Like water for chocolate / Jeffrey Oxford; title: The absence of God and the presence of ancestors in Laura Esquivel's Like water for chocolate / Stephen Butler Murray; title: Gendered spaces, gendered knowledge : a cultural geography of kitchenspace in Central Mexico / Maria Elisa Christie; title: Transformation, code, and mimesis : healing the family in Like water for chocolate / Debra D. Andrist; title: Cultural identity and the cosmos : Laura Esquivel's predictions for a new millennium in The law of love / Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez; title: Laura Esquivel's quantum leap in The law of love / Lydia H. Rodríguez ; translated by Lydia H. Rodriguez; title: The two Mexicos of Swift as desire / Elizabeth M. Willingham; title: Malinche : fleshing out the foundational fictions of the conquest of Mexico / Jeanne L. Gillespie; title: Esquivel's Malinalli : refusing the last word on La Malinche / Jeanne L. Gillespie; title: Esquivel's fiction in the context of Latin American women's fiction / Jeanne L. Gillespie ; translation by Patrick Duffey and Harrison L. Parks.