Food Studies in Latin American Literature: Perspectives on the Gastronarrative (Food and Foodways)
Description
Food 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 Inés de la Cruz’s poetics; the centrality of desire in twentieth-century cooking writing by women; the relationship among food, recipes, and national identity; the role of food in travel narratives; and the impact of advertisements on 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.
Praise for Food Studies in Latin American Literature: Perspectives on the Gastronarrative (Food and Foodways)
“In Food Studies in Latin American Literature, Rocío del Aguila and Vanesa Miseres bring together a group of seasoned experts to discuss how food and literature intersect as narrative practices. This volume is an important—and urgently needed—contribution to food-studies scholarship on the literary and cultural texts of Latin America. A valuable resource for both the classroom and scholars curious about gastronarrative as a methodology and object of study.”
—Rebecca Ingram, University of San Diego
“Food Studies in Latin American Literature: Perspectives on the Gastronarrrative is a long-awaited scholarly work in the field of Latin American literary studies. The book’s thirteen chapters constitute an incisive critical reading of Latin American literature from a perspective grounded in the study of food ‘beyond the representational level’. … The scholarship in Food Studies in Latin American Literature is situated at a crossroads of affective, socio-national, and local histories. Without detriment to its academic rigor, the book is intended for a diverse and heterogeneous readership that will find in these chapters ‘new understandings of old subjects’ as well as a valuable assemblage of critical and theoretical tools for eliciting new meanings from phenomena, narratives, and practices that are often otherwise disqualified, depoliticized, or left unexamined.”
—Luz Ainaí Morales-Pino, Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, Volume 77, 2023