| Description |
xxii, 282 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations chiefly color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A biography of Laura Esquivel / Linda Ledford-Miller -- An introduction to Esquivel criticism / Elizabeth Moore Willingham -- Laura Esquivel's Mexican chocolate / Elena Poniatowska Amor ; translated by Manuel Muñoz and Elizabeth Moore Willingham -- El chocolate mexicano de Laura Esquivel / Elena Poniatowska Amor -- Crossing gender borders: subversion of cinematic melodrama in Like water for chocolate / Patrick Duffey -- Unmasked men: sex roles in Like water for chocolate / Jeffrey Oxford -- The absence of God and the presence of ancestors in Laura Esquivel's Like water for chocolate / Stephen Butler Murray -- Gendered spaces, gendered knowledge: a cultural geography of kitchenspace in central Mexico / Maria Elisa Christie -- Transformation, code, and mimesis: healing the family in Like water for chocolate / Debra D. Andrist -- Cultural identity and the cosmos: Laura Esquivel's predictions for a new millennium in The law of love / Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez -- Laura Esquivel's quantum leap in The law of love / Lydia H. Rodríguez -- The two Mexicos of Swift as desire / Elizabeth Moore Willingham -- Malinche: fleshing out the foundational fictions of the conquest of Mexico / Jeanne L. Gillespie -- Esquivel's Malinalli: refusing the last word on La Malinche / Ryan F. Long -- Esquivel's fiction in the context of Latin American women's writing / Alberto Julian Pérez ; translated by Patrick Duffey and Harrison L. Parks. |
| Summary |
Contains critical essays on the novels of twentieth-century Mexican author Laura Esquivel, including "The Law of Love," "Swift as Desire," "Malinche: A Novel," and the book and film versions of "Like Water for Chocolate," and includes a biographical profile of Esquivel. |
| Subject |
Esquivel, Laura, 1950- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Esquivel, Laura, 1950- |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Mexico -- In literature.
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Mexico. |
| Added Author |
Willingham, Elizabeth M. (Elizabeth Moore)
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| ISBN |
9781845194109 h/c alkaline paper |
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1845194101 |
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