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Food, texts, and cultures in Latin America and Spain / Rafael Climent-Espino and Ana M. Gomez-Bravo, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food in literature.
- Cooking in literature.
- Latin American literature--History and criticism.
- Latin American literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (372 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Approaches Hispanic and Latin American food from the perspective of literary and cultural studies. Fourteen essays apply a food lens to colonial studies, ethnic and racial studies, gender and sexuality studies, and studies of power dynamics, nationalisms and nation building, theories of embodiment, and identity"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Food, blood and a Jewish Raza in fifteenth-century Spain / Ana M. Gómez-Bravo
- Taste and taxonomy of native food in Hispanic America : 1492-1640 / Gregorio Saldarriaga Escobar
- Still life, food and fiction : diversions from the colonial Baroque / Rodrigo Labriola
- Furniture and equipment in the royal kitchens of early modern Spain / Carolyn Nadeau
- Enlightened meals : literary perspectives on food in eighteenth-century Spain / María Ángeles Perez Samper
- Madrid : cuisine as cultural melting pot / María Del Carmen Simón Palmer
- Beyond the recipes : authorship, text and context in canonical Spanish cookbooks / María Paz Moreno
- Cooks and ladies : the writing of culinary knowledge in Argentina in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Paula Caldo
- The evolution of Mexican cuisine : five gastronomical seasons, mole, pozole, tamal, tortilla, and chile relleno / Adolfo Castañón
- What the palate knows : Nicaragua's culinary cultures / Sergio Ramírez
- A gastrocritical reading of Miguel Angel Asturias's early narrative : Legends of Guatemala, The president, and Men of maize / Rafael Climent-Espino
- On hunger and Brazilian literature / Sabrina Sedlmayer
- Food in recent Cuban literature (1990-2016) : from hero in the special period fiction to almost zero in the generation zero / Rita De Maeseneer.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780826522832
- 0826522831
- OCLC:
- 1150959914
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