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Laura Esquivel's Mexican fictions : Like water for chocolate, Como agua para chocolate ; The law of love, La ley del amor ; Swift as desire, Tan veloz como el deseo ; Malinche, a novel, Malinche, novela by Elizabeth Moore Willingham; Sussex Academic Press is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Outstanding essayists in Latin American literature and film explore Laura Esquivel's critical reputation, contextualise her work in literary movements, and consider her four novels and the film based on Like Water for Chocolate from diverse critical perspectives. The Editor's'An Introduction to Esquivel Criticism'reviews twenty-years of global praise and condemnation. Elena Poniatowska, in an essay provided in the original Spanish and in translation, reflects on her first reading of Like Water for Chocolate. From unique critical perspectives, Jeffrey Oxford, Patrick Duffey, and Debra Andrist probe the novel as film and fiction. The Reverend Dr Stephen Butler Murray explores the author's spiritual focus, and cultural geographer Maria Elena Christie uses words and images to compare Mexican kitchen-space and Esquivel's first novel. Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez and Lydia H Rodriguez affirm divergent readings of The Law of Love, and Elizabeth M Willingham reads contested national identity in Swift as Desire. Jeanne L Gillespie and Ryan F Long approach Malinche: A Novel through historical documents and popular and religious culture. In the closing essay of the volume, Alberto Julian Perez

Author

Elizabeth Moore Willingham; Sussex Academic Press

Publisher

Liverpool University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781845195564

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Romance