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Title:

Rethinking Chicana/o literature through food : postnational appetites / edited by Nieves Pascual Soler and Meredith E. Abarca.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

vi, 240 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--21st century--History and criticism.
Food in literature.
Chicanos.
Lebensmittel.
Literatur.
USA.

Other Authors:

Pascual Soler, Nieves, editor of compilation.
Abarca, Meredith E. editor of compilation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Meredith E. Abarca and Nieves Pascual Soler -- pt. 1. Translatable foods -- Diabetes, culture, and food: posthumanist nutrition in the Gloria Anzaldua Archive / Suzanne Bost -- Bologna tacos and kitchen slaves: food and identity in Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo / Heather Salter -- Food journeys in Places left unfinished at the time of creation and Woman hollering creek / Norma L. Cardenas -- pt. 2. The taste of authenticity -- "Because feeding is the beginning and end": food politics in Ana Castillo's So far from god / Elizabeth Lee Steere -- Food, consciousness and feminism in Denise Chavez's Loving Pedro Infante / Laura P. Alonso Gallo -- pt. 3. The voice of hunger -- families who eat together, stay together: but should they?/ Meredith E. Abarca -- "La comida y la conciencia": foods in the counter-poetics of Lorna Dee Cervantes / Edith Vasquez and Irene Vasquez -- Hungers and desires: borderlands appetites and fulfillment / Norma E. Cantu -- pt. 4. Machos or cooks -- Chicano culinarius: from cowboys to gastronomes / Nieves Pascual Soler -- Mexican meat matzah balls: burciaga as a Culinary Ambassador / Mimi Reisel Gladstein -- Reading the taco shop poets in the crossroads of Chicano postnationalism / Paul Allatson.

Series:

Literatures of the Americas

ISBN:

113737859X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781137378590 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)853435866

LCCN:

2013023835

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)