A recipe for discourse : perspectives on Like water for chocolate / / 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...

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Superior document:Dialogue ; 11
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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.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Women, Alterity and Mexican Identity in Como agua para chocolate / Tina Escaja
  • Like Water for Chocolate: Cinematic Patriarchy and Tradition / Jorge J. Barrueto
  • Like Water for Chocolate and Human Nature / Jerry Hoeg
  • Like Water for Chocolate and the Art of Criticism / Jay Corwin
  • Under the Sign of Hyperbole: Magical Realism and Melodrama in Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate / Mónica Zapata
  • Como agua para chocolate: Cinderella and the Revolution / Cherie Meacham
  • Myth and Marginalization in Como agua para chocolate / Victoria Martinez
  • Female Rebellion and Carnival: Like Water for Chocolate / Amalia Chaverri
  • Chile Conquest: Like Water for Chocolate’s “Revolutionary” Impact on Perceptions of Mexican Food in the United States / Ellyn Lem
  • National Myths and Archetypal Imagery in Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate / María Teresa Martínez-Ortiz
  • The Mexican Revolution as Active Participant in Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate / Eric Skipper
  • Abstracts of Arguments / Eric Skipper
  • About the Authors / Eric Skipper
  • Index / Eric Skipper.