Food Studies in Latin American Literature

Perspectives on the Gastronarrative

Rocío del Aguila, Vanesa Miseres, Rocío del Aguila, Vanesa Miseres

• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781682261811
• eBook ISBN: 9781610757546
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean Literary Criticism
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Series Editors’ Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Toward the Construction of a Latin American Gastronarrative
• I ▪ Culinary Fusion: Indigenous Heritage and Colonialism
• II ▪ A Modernized Table: National Identities, Regionalisms, and Transnational Foodways
• III ▪ Gender and Food: Consumerism, Desire, and Women’s Agency
• IV ▪ Latin American Food Writing: Between History and Aesthetics
• Epilogue: Why Gastronarratives Matter
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index