Food Studies in Latin American Literature: Perspectives on the Gastronarrative (Food and Foodways) (Paperback)

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By Rocío del Aguila (Editor), Vanesa Miseres (Editor)
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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.

About the Author


Rocío del Aguila is associate professor of Spanish at Wichita State University.

Vanesa Miseres is associate professor of Spanish at the University of Notre Dame.

Praise For…


“In Food Studies in Latin American Literature, Rocío del Aguila and Vanesa Miseres bring together a group of seasoned experts to discuss how food and literature intersect as narrative practices. This volume is an important—and urgently needed—contribution to food-studies scholarship on the literary and cultural texts of Latin America. A valuable resource for both the classroom and scholars curious about gastronarrative as a methodology and object of study.”
—Rebecca Ingram, University of San Diego

Food Studies in Latin American Literature: Perspectives on the Gastronarrrative is a long-awaited scholarly work in the field of Latin American literary studies. The book’s thirteen chapters constitute an incisive critical reading of Latin American literature from a perspective grounded in the study of food ‘beyond the representational level’. … The scholarship in Food Studies in Latin American Literature is situated at a crossroads of affective, socio-national, and local histories. Without detriment to its academic rigor, the book is intended for a diverse and heterogeneous readership that will find in these chapters ‘new understandings of old subjects’ as well as a valuable assemblage of critical and theoretical tools for eliciting new meanings from phenomena, narratives, and practices that are often otherwise disqualified, depoliticized, or left unexamined.”
—Luz Ainaí Morales-Pino, Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, Volume 77, 2023
Product Details
ISBN: 9781682261811
ISBN-10: 1682261816
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Publication Date: December 10th, 2021
Pages: 247
Language: English
Series: Food and Foodways