UID:
almahu_9947363594502882
Umfang:
252 p.
ISBN:
9781137371447 :
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1137371447 :
Serie:
Literatures of the Americas
Inhalt:
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.
Inhalt:
"Editors Nieves Pascual Soler and Meredith E. Abarca offer in their collection, Rethinking Chicana/o Literature through Food: Postnational Appetites, a cornucopia of exceptional essays that apply their newly constructed theoretical paradigm based on food and food consciousness in the analysis and hermeneutics of Chicano/a literary production. The authors brilliantly posit that food preparation and consumption extant in literary discourse is a vehicle of communication encoding various acts of rebellion against marginalization and exclusion in a patriarchal nation. Foodways, Soler and Abarca splendidly and provocatively assert, provide a means of 'redefining subjectivities in postnational cultures.' This is a must-read scholarly work for those interested in the construction of national and postnational subjectivities." - Maria Herrera-Sobek, Associate Vice Chancellor, Professor of Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA "Covering a diverse range of writers and texts, this collection is a valuable contribution to food studies and literary scholarship that has overlooked the presence of food and consumption in Chicana/o writing. Abarca and Pascual Soler provide a much-needed study on how food in Chicana/o literature creates and represents consciousness/concientizacion, thus shifting the Anzalduan border paradigm from an 'open wound' to an 'open mouth.' A study like this was long overdue." - Cristina Herrera, Associate Professor of Chicano and Latin American Studies, California State University, Fresno, USA.
Anmerkung:
Electronic book text.
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Epublication based on: 9781137378590, 2013.
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PART I: TRANSLATABLE FOODS 1. Diabetes, Culture, and Food: Posthumanist Nutrition in the Gloria Anzaldua Archive-- Suzanne Bost 2. Bologna Tacos and Kitchen Slaves: Food and Identity in Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo-- Heather Salter 3. Food Journeys in Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation and Woman Hollering Creek-- Norma L. Cardenas PART II: THE TASTE OF AUTHENTICITY 4. 'Because Feeding is the Beginning and End': Food Politics in Ana Castillo's So Far From God-- Elizabeth Lee Steere 5. Food, Consciousness and Feminism in Denise Chavez's Loving Pedro Infante-- Laura P. Alonso Gallo PART III: THE VOICE OF HUNGER 6. Families Who Eat Together, Stay Together: But Should They?'-- Meredith E. Abarca 7. La Comida y La Conciencia: Foods in the Counter-Poetics of Lorna Dee Cervantes-- Edith Vasquez, University of California, Riverside, & Irene Vasquez 8. Hungers and Desires: Borderlands Appetites-- Norma E. Cantu PART IV: MACHOS OR COOKS 9. Chicano Culinarius: From Cowboys to Gastronomers-- Nieves Pascual 10. Mexican Meat Matzah Balls: Burciaga as a Culinary Ambassador-- Mimi Reisel Gladstein 11. Reading the Taco Shop Poets in the Crossroads of Chicano Postnationalism-- Paul Allatson.
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Sprache:
Englisch
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