Rethinking Chicana/o literature through food : postnational appetites / edited by Nieves Pascual Soler and Meredith E. Abarca.
Despite the fact that Food Studies has grown into a well-established field, literary scholars have not yet fully addressed the prevalent themes of food, eating, and consumption in Chicana/o literature. This exciting anthology examines representations of food in contemporary Chicana/o literary texts....
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2013]
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| Series: | Literatures of the Americas.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Meredith E. Abarca and Nieves Pascual Soler
- pt. 1. Translatable foods
- Diabetes, culture, and food: posthumanist nutrition in the Gloria Anzaldua Archive / Suzanne Bost
- Bologna tacos and kitchen slaves: food and identity in Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo / Heather Salter
- Food journeys in Places left unfinished at the time of creation and Woman hollering creek / Norma L. Cardenas
- pt. 2. The taste of authenticity
- "Because feeding is the beginning and end": food politics in Ana Castillo's So far from god / Elizabeth Lee Steere
- Food, consciousness and feminism in Denise Chavez's Loving Pedro Infante / Laura P. Alonso Gallo
- pt. 3. The voice of hunger
- families who eat together, stay together: but should they?/ Meredith E. Abarca
- "La comida y la conciencia": foods in the counter-poetics of Lorna Dee Cervantes / Edith Vasquez and Irene Vasquez
- Hungers and desires: borderlands appetites and fulfillment / Norma E. Cantu
- pt. 4. Machos or cooks
- Chicano culinarius: from cowboys to gastronomes / Nieves Pascual Soler
- Mexican meat matzah balls: burciaga as a Culinary Ambassador / Mimi Reisel Gladstein
- Reading the taco shop poets in the crossroads of Chicano postnationalism / Paul Allatson.