Postmodern Parody and Culinary-Narrative Art in Laura Esquivel's "Como agua para chocolate"

Glenn, Kathleen M.

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“…Esta interpretación presupone que sea posible una manera deconstructivista de lectura de la novela. En efecto, algunos críticos proponen una lectura posmodernista de carácter paródico de la novela (Glenn 1994;Lillo/Sarfati-Arnaud 1994). En el caso de la película, la música y las imágenes impresionantes impiden esta interpretación, aunque la estilización exagerada insinúa de vez en cuando que no hay que tomar todo en serio.…”

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Luis Buñuel: Ensayo de un crimen (1955)

Junkerjürgen¹

2016

Clásicos Del Cine Mexicano

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Luis Buñuel: Ensayo de un crimen (1955)

Junkerjürgen¹

2016

Clásicos Del Cine Mexicano

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Elizabeth Acevedo, Laura Esquivel, and the Politics of Multilingualism

Manizza Roszak

2024

Neophilologus

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A number of bloggers, journalists, teachers, and librarians have compared Elizabeth Acevedo’s 2019 young adult novel With the Fire on High with Laura Esquivel’s Como agua para chocolate (1989), recommending that fans of Esquivel’s work pick up Acevedo’s—and vice versa. These suggestions echo Acevedo’s own comments about the narrative, which she has characterized as “parecido a ‘Como agua para chocolate,’ pero en el barrio” (Acevedo & Pichardo, 2019). This article takes this recent reception history as an invitation to think through how With the Fire on High deepens and course-corrects the revolutionary path of Esquivel’s earlier text. More specifically, I interrogate how Acevedo and Esquivel engage with linguistic identities and with multilingualism in particular as source material for political resistance and healing. Acevedo, like Esquivel before her, represents multilingual identities in ways that disrupt and resist the neocolonial violence of the United States. However, whereas Como agua para chocolate’s references to minoritized languages are executed in a manner that threatens to reinscribe traumatizing ethnoracial and class hierarchies passed down via colonial history, multilingualism in Acevedo’s novel works more systemically to intervene in and undermine such established matrices of power. Acevedo participates in a project of linguistic resistance and healing that involves reclaiming a heritage language for a multiply marginalized protagonist and, through that act of reclamation, rejecting the received cultural wisdom propagated by both colonial and neocolonial systems.

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Culinary Eros in Contemporary Hispanic Female Fiction: From Kitchen Tales to Table Narratives

Zubiaurre¹

2006

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Literary criticism has read the kitchen in Laura Esquivel's novel Like water for chocolate as the ideal site for establishing a female community and even feminist utopia from which to contest patriarchal power. This article openly contests such reading. It argues that Esquivel's novel, as the paradigmatic example of what I call "kitchen tales," is particularly skillful in keeping women within the magic-domestic realm and at the margins of any real public influence. Furthermore, I coin the term "table narratives" to designate an alternative group of female Hispanic fictions where women appear at the other end of the food production line, as consumers rather than producers of culinary delicacies. This article concludes that table narratives are the ones with a strong feminist agenda. They firmly place women within the public arena, instead of confining them to the kitchen and forcing them to be forever witches, virgins, nurturers, and mothers.

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Postmodern Parody and Culinary-Narrative Art in Laura Esquivel's "Como agua para chocolate"

Cited by 5 publications

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Luis Buñuel: Ensayo de un crimen (1955)

Luis Buñuel: Ensayo de un crimen (1955)

Elizabeth Acevedo, Laura Esquivel, and the Politics of Multilingualism

Culinary Eros in Contemporary Hispanic Female Fiction: From Kitchen Tales to Table Narratives

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