Laura Esquivel's Mexican fictions
Subtitle: Like water for chocolate, The law of love, Swift as desire, Malinche: a novel
By: edited by Elizabeth Moore Willingham.
Contributors: Willingham, Elizabeth M.
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Brighton; Portland
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845194109
Subjects: Esquivel, Laura, -- 1950- -- Criticism and interpretation; Mexico -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A biography of Laura Esquivel; title: An introduction to Esquivel criticism; title: Laura Esquivel's Mexican chocolate / Elena Poniatowska Amor; 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. 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 / Ryan F. Long; title: Esquivel's fiction in the context of Latin American women's writing / Alberto Julian Pérez.