Rethinking Chicana/o Literature through Food: Postnational Appetites

As Food Studies has grown into a well-established field, literary scholars have not fully addressed the prevalent themes of food, eating, and consumption in Chicana/o literature. Here, contributors propose food consciousness as a paradigm to examine the literary discourses of Chicana/o authors as they shift from the nation to the postnation.

Meredith E. Abarca, University of Texas, El Paso, USA Paul Allatson, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Laura P. Alonso Gallo, Barry University, Miami, USA Suzanne Bost, Loyola University, Chicago, USA Norma E. Cantú, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA Norma L. Cárdenas, Oregon State University, USA Elizabeth Lee Steere, University of West Georgia, USA Mimi Reisel Gladstein, University of Texas, El Paso, USA Nieves Pascual, University of Jaén, Spain Heather Salter, Northwestern State University of Louisiana, USA Edith Vásquez, Pitzer College, USA Irene Vásquez, University of New Mexico, USA

PART I: TRANSLATABLE FOODS 1. Diabetes, Culture, and Food: Posthumanist Nutrition in the Gloria Anzaldúa Archive; Suzanne Bost 2. Bologna Tacos and Kitchen Slaves: Food and Identity in Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo; Heather Salter 3. Food Journeys in Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation and Woman Hollering Creek; Norma L. Cárdenas PART II: THE TASTE OF AUTHENTICITY 4. 'Because Feeding is the Beginning and End': Food Politics in Ana Castillo's So Far From God; Elizabeth Lee Steere 5. Food, Consciousness and Feminism in Denise Chávez's Loving Pedro Infante; Laura P. Alonso Gallo PART III: THE VOICE OF HUNGER 6. Families Who Eat Together, Stay Together: But Should They?'; Meredith E. Abarca 7. La Comida y La Conciencia: Foods in the Counter-Poetics of Lorna Dee Cervantes; Edith Vásquez, University of California, Riverside, & Irene Vásquez 8. Hungers and Desires: Borderlands Appetites; Norma E. Cantú PART IV: MACHOS OR COOKS 9. Chicano Culinarius: From Cowboys to Gastronomers; Nieves Pascual 10. Mexican Meat Matzah Balls: Burciaga as a Culinary Ambassador; Mimi Reisel Gladstein 11. Reading the Taco Shop Poets in the Crossroads of Chicano Postnationalism; Paul Allatson