Rethinking Chicana/o literature through food : postnational appetites / edited by Nieves Pascual Soler and Meredith E. Abarca.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pascual Soler, Nieves, editor of compilation.

Abarca, Meredith E., 1967- editor of compilation.

Series:

Literatures of the Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Mexican American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--Mexican American authors.

American literature--21st century--History and criticism.

Food in literature.

Physical Description:

vi, 240 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

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 proposes food consciousness as a paradigm to examine the literary discourses of Chicana/o authors as they shift from the nation to the post-nation. The essays articulate the transnational and global dimensions and introduce food consciousness as an alternative paradigm to Gloria Anzaldúa's "mestiza consciousness," Chela Sandoval's "differential consciousness," and Emma Pérez's "historical consciousness." Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137378590

113737859X

OCLC:

853435866