Food Studies in Latin American Literature: Perspectives on the Gastronarrative

ISBN-13: 9781682261811 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 247 str.

Rocío del Aguila; Vanesa Miseres

Spis treści

• 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