Description
Book SynopsisFood Studies in Latin American Literature presents a timely collection of essays analyzing a wide array of Latin American narratives through the lens of food studies.
Topics explored include potato and maize in colonial and contemporary global narratives, the role of cooking in Sor Juana’s poetics, the centrality of desire in twentieth-century cooking writing by women, the relationship between food, recipes, and national identity, the role of food in travel narratives, and the impact of advertisements in domestic roles.
The contributors included here — experts in Latin American History, Literature, and Cultural Studies -– bring a novel, interdisciplinary approach to these explorations, presenting new perspectives on Latin American literature and culture.
Table of Contents
- Illustrations
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Toward the Construction of a Latin American Gastronarrative — RocÍo del Aguila and Vanesa Miseres
- I – Culinary Fusion: Indigenous Heritage and Colonialism
- 1. Food, Power, and Discursive Resistance in Tahuantinsuyu and the Colonial Andes — Alison KrÖgel
- 2. The Potato: Culture and Agriculture in Context — Regina Harrison
- 3. The Culinary World of Sor Juana InÉs de la Cruz — Paola Jeannete Vera BÁez and Ángel T. Tuninetti
- II – A Modernized Table: National Identities, Regionalisms, and Transnational Foodways
- 4. Immigrants, Elites, and Identities: Representing Food Cultures in Nineteenth-Century Latin America — Lee Skinner
- 5. Native Food and Male Emotions: Alimentary Encounters between White Travelers and Their “Others” in Nineteenth-Century Colombia — Mercedes Lopez Rodriguez
- 6. A Matter of Taste: Aesthetics, Manners, and Food in Eduarda Mansilla’s Experience in New York — Vanesa Miseres
- III – Gender and Food: Consumerism, Desire, and Women’s Agency
- 7. Homemaking in 1950s Mexico: Women, Class, and Race through the Kitchen Window — Sandra Aguilar-RodrÍguez
- 8. Sense of Place and Gender in Rosario Castellanos’s “Cooking Lesson” — Elizabeth Montes GarcÉs
- 9. Lemons, Oregano, Satisfaction, and Hopeless Melancholy: Agency, Subversion, and Identity in Mayra Santos Febres’s “Marina y su olor” — Nina B. Namaste
- 10. Exquisite Paradise: Taste and Consumption in Hebe Uhart’s “El budÍn esponjoso” — Karina Elizabeth VÁzquez
- IV – Latin American Food Writing: Between History and Aesthetics
- 11. The Poetics of Gastronomic History: Salvador Novo’s Cocina mexicana — Ignacio M. SÁnchez Prado
- 12. Food, Hunger, and Identity in MartÍn CaparrÓs’s Travel Writing — Ángel T. Tuninetti
- 13. American Counterpoints: Barbacoa and Barbecue beyond Nation — Russell Cobb
- Epilogue: Why Gastronarratives Matter — MarÍa Paz Moreno
- Bibliography — Contributors — Index
