'Como agua para chocolate' and ‘Intimas suculencias’: Laura Esquivel’s 'nueva literatura' and the creation of a canon of women writing about food, knowledge and pleasure
Since it was published thirty years ago, Laura Esquivel’s first novel 'Como agua para chocolate' has been the subject of intense critical debate. On the one hand, 'Como agua' is associated with the ‘boom femenino’ of Spanish American women’s writing in the 1980s. On the other, it...
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Liverpool University Press
2019-06-01
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| Series: | Modern Languages Open |
| Online Access: | https://www.modernlanguagesopen.org/articles/233 |