Oppression and resistance in the kitchen in Laura Esquivel's Como água para chocolate
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-1124.v0i18p138-151Keywords:
Laura Esquivel, como água para chocolate, space, kitchen, oppression, resistanceAbstract
This article aims to analyse the kitchen space representation in Como água para chocolate (1993) by Laura Esquivel and its implications on the movements of oppression and resistance portrayed by the author in the diegesis. Tita De la Garza, born over the kitchen table, is deprived from living a meaningful life to fulfill a family tradition to take care of her mother until her death. The kitchen, at first stablished as a place of confinement, is transformed into a subversive axis for the development of female subjectivities as Tita finds in her spatial imprisonment a way to project her once silenced voice, desires and feelings through food. In order to better understand how this movement develops in the novel, we base our theoretical framework on scholars such Tuan (2013), Sceats (2003), and Certeau, Giard and Mayol (1993).
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