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Rethinking Chicana/o Literature through Food

Postnational Appetites

Herausgegeben: Loparo, Kenneth A.; Abarca, M.

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Meredith E. Abarca, University of Texas, El Paso, USA Paul Allatson, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Laura P. Alonso Gallo, Barry University, Miami, USA Suzanne Bost, Loyola University, Chicago, USA Norma E. Cantú, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA Norma L. Cárdenas, Oregon State University, USA Elizabeth Lee Steere, University of West Georgia, USA Mimi Reisel Gladstein, University of Texas, El Paso, USA Nieves Pascual, University of Jaén, Spain Heather Salter, Northwestern State University of Louisiana, USA Edith Vásquez, Pitzer College, USA Irene Vásquez, University of New Mexico, USA

Produktdetails

• Literatures of the Americas
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-47835-4
• 1st ed. 2013
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 321g
• ISBN-13: 9781349478354
• ISBN-10: 1349478350
• Artikelnr.: 45081170

Rezensionen

"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." - María Herrera-Sobek, Associate Vice Chancellor, Professor of Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

"Covering a diverse rangeof 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/concientización, thus shifting the Anzaldúan border paradigm from an 'open wound' to an 'open mouth.' A study like this was long overdue." - Cristina Herrera, Associate Professor of Chicanoand Latin American Studies, California State University, Fresno, USA