A recipe for discourse : perspectives on Like water for chocolate / / edited by Eric Skipper.

• Superior document: Dialogue ; 11
• TeilnehmendeR: Skipper, Eric.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Guft va gū ; 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (215 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Women, Alterity and Mexican Identity in Como agua para chocolate /; Like Water for Chocolate: Cinematic Patriarchy and Tradition /; Like Water for Chocolate and Human Nature /; Like Water for Chocolate and the Art of Criticism /; Under the Sign of Hyperbole: Magical Realism and Melodrama in Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate /; Como agua para chocolate: Cinderella and the Revolution /; Myth and Marginalization in Como agua para chocolate /; Female Rebellion and Carnival: Like Water for Chocolate /; Chile Conquest: Like Water for Chocolate’s “Revolutionary” Impact on Perceptions of Mexican Food in the United States /; National Myths and Archetypal Imagery in Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate /; The Mexican Revolution as Active Participant in Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate /; Abstracts of Arguments /; About the Authors /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1282916890; 9786612916892; 9042031921
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Eric Skipper.

Slender and yet panoramic in scope, historical and yet relevant to current-day concerns, Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate has provoked from the outset a divergent range of critical opinions. The essays in A Recipe for Discourse: Perspectives on Like Water for Chocolate represent the novel’s problematic nature in their many diverse approaches, perspectives that are certain to awaken in the reader new ways of approaching the text while challenging old ones. This volume’s ‘dialogue’ format, in which essays are grouped thematically, is particularly effective in presenting such a diverse range of viewpoints. The reader will find herein lively discussion on LWFC as it relates to such themes as gastronomy, superstition, mythology, folklore, the Mexican Revolution, magical realism, female identity, alteration, and matriarchy/ patriarchy. It is the editor’s hope that a diverse readership, from undergraduate students to seasoned scholars, will find this volume engaging and enlightening.