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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Reviews
"Editors Nieves Pascual Soler and Meredith E. Abarca offer in their collection, Rethinking Chicana/o Literature through Food: Postnational Appetites, a cornucopia of exceptional essays that apply their newly constructed theoretical paradigm based on food and food consciousness in the analysis and hermeneutics of Chicano/a literary production. The authors brilliantly posit that food preparation and consumption extant in literary discourse is a vehicle of communication encoding various acts of rebellion against marginalization and exclusion in a patriarchal nation. Foodways, Soler and Abarca splendidly and provocatively assert, provide a means of 'redefining subjectivities in postnational cultures.' This is a must-read scholarly work for those interested in the construction of national and postnational subjectivities." - María Herrera-Sobek, Associate Vice Chancellor, Professor of Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
"Covering a diverse range of writers and texts, this collection is a valuable contribution to food studies and literary scholarship that has overlooked the presence of food and consumption in Chicana/o writing. Abarca and Pascual Soler provide a much-needed study on how food in Chicana/o literature creates and represents consciousness/concientización, thus shifting the Anzaldúan border paradigm from an 'open wound' to an 'open mouth.' A study like this was long overdue." - Cristina Herrera, Associate Professor of Chicanoand Latin American Studies, California State University, Fresno, USA
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rethinking Chicana/o Literature through Food
Book Subtitle: Postnational Appetites
Editors: Nieves Pascual Soler, Meredith E. Abarca
Series Title: Literatures of the Americas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137371447
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Nieves Pascual Soler and Meredith E. Abarca 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-37859-0Published: 18 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-47835-4Published: 30 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-37144-7Published: 18 December 2013
Series ISSN: 2634-601X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6028
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 240
Topics: North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Latin American Culture