Rethinking Chicana/o literature through food : postnational appetites /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Pascual Soler, Nieves (Editor), Abarca, Meredith E., 1967- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Literatures of the Americas.
Subjects:	American literature > Mexican American authors > History and criticism. American literature > 21st century > History and criticism. Food in literature.

Table of 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.