Laura Esquivel's Mexican Fictions

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Publisher : Apollo Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845195564
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (955 download)

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Book Synopsis Laura Esquivel's Mexican Fictions by : Elizabeth Moore Willingham

Download or read book Laura Esquivel's Mexican Fictions written by Elizabeth Moore Willingham and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2012-05-18 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book - now available in paperback - is the first in-depth review and assessment of Laura Esquivel criticism. Outstanding essayists - from diverse critical perspectives in Latin American literature and film - explore Esquivel's critical reputation, contextualize her work in literary movements, and consider her four novels, as well as the film based on Like Water for Chocolate. The book begins with An Introduction to Esquivel Criticism, reviewing 20 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 Rev. Dr. Stephen Butler Murray explores Esquivel's spiritual focus, while 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 discusses the 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 Jeanne L. Gillespie and Ryan F. Long approach Malinche: A Novel through historical documents and popular and religious culture.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, Alberto Julian Perez contextualizes Esquivel's fiction within Feminist and Hispanic literary movements. This book has won the Harvey L. Johnson Book Award for 2011, conferred by the South Central Organization of Latin American Studies at its 44th annual Congress in Miami, Florida (March 9, 2012).

Laura Esquivel's Mexican Fictions

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Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1837641978
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (376 download)

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Book Synopsis Laura Esquivel's Mexican Fictions by : Elizabeth M Willingham

Download or read book Laura Esquivel's Mexican Fictions written by Elizabeth M Willingham and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-04 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores Laura Esquivel's critical reputation, contextualizes her work in literary movements, and considers hers four novels and the film based on "Like Water for Chocolate" from various perspectives. This book assesses the twenty years of Esquivel criticism.

Atria Español Presents: The Best of Mexican Literature

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476760195
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Atria Español Presents: The Best of Mexican Literature written by Guillermo Arriaga and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atria Español Presents: The Best of Mexican Literature Get acquainted with the work of some of the greatest authors of Mexican heritage with Atria Español Presents: The Best of Mexican Literature. This sampler has all the ingredients that makeup some of the best books that Mexican Literature has to offer. You’ll find excerpts from: Malinche by Laura Esquivel The Night Buffalo by Guillermo Arriaga The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo by F.G. Haghenbeck Across a Hundred Mountains by Reyna Grande People Like Us by Javier Valdés No matter what your literary preferences are, we know you’ll find something here to satisfy you.

Malinche

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1847397182
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Malinche written by Laura Esquivel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary retelling of the passionate and tragic love between the conquistador Cortez and the Indian woman Malinalli, his interpreter during his conquest of the Aztecs. Malinalli's Indian tribe has been conquered by the warrior Aztecs. When her father is killed in battle, she is raised by her wisewoman grandmother who imparts to her the knowledge that their founding forefather god, Quetzalcoatl, had abandoned them after being made drunk by a trickster god and committing incest with his sister. But he was determined to return with the rising sun and save her tribe from their present captivity. Wheh Malinalli meets Cortez she, like many, suspects that he is the returning Quetzalcoatl, and assumes her task is to welcome him and help him destroy the Aztec empire and free her people. The two fall passionately in love, but Malinalli gradually comes to realize that Cortez's thirst for conquest is all too human, and that for gold and power, he is willing to destroy anyone, even his own men, even their own love.

Swift as Desire

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Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1400033268
Total Pages : 208 pages
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Download or read book Swift as Desire written by Laura Esquivel and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2002-08-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the millions of fans of Like Water for Chocolate know, Laura Esquivel is a romanticist whose novels explore the power of love and the truths of the human heart. She returns to those themes in Swift as Desire, the story of a loving and passionate man who has the gift of bringing happiness to everyone except his own wife. The hero of this novel is Júbilo Chi, a telegraph operator who is born with the ability to “hear” people’s true feelings and respond to their most intimate, unspoken desires. His life changes forever the day he falls deeply and irrevocably in love with Lucha, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy family. She believes money is necessary to insure happiness, while for Júbilo, who is poor, love and desire are more important than possessions. But their passion for each other enables them to build a happy life together -- until their idyll is shattered by a terrible event that drives them bitterly apart. Only years later, as Júbilo lies dying, is his daughter able to unravel the mystery behind her parents’ long estrangement and bring about a surprising reconciliation.

The Law of Love

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ISBN 13 : 9781503951556
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (515 download)

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Malinche

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743290356
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Malinche written by Laura Esquivel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the international bestselling author of "Like Water for Chocolate" comes an extraordinary new historical novel about a passionate and tragic love affair during the conquest of the Aztecs.

The Law of Love

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Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law of Love written by Laura Esquivel and published by Crown. This book was released on 1996 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This romantic, innovative, and wildly comic "New York Times" bestseller by the author of "Like Water for Chocolate" tells a cosmic love story, a Mexican "Midsummer Night's Dream" that stretches from the fall of Montezuma's Mexico to the 23rd century. Includes eight sections of full-color illustrations.

Malinche Spanish Version

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743290364
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Malinche Spanish Version written by Laura Esquivel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuando Malinalli conoce a Hernán Cortés, asume que se trata del propio Dios Quetzalcóatl que regresa a liberar a su pueblo. Los dos se enamoran apasionadamente, pero este amor pronto es destruido por la desmedida sed de conquista, poder y riqueza de Cortés. A lo largo de la historia de México Malinalli/Malinche ha sido conocida por su traición al pueblo indio. Pero recientes investigaciones históricas han demostrado que Malinalli fue la mediadora entre dos culturas, la hispánica y la indígena; y entre dos lenguas, el español y el náhuatl. Lo que Esquivel ha hecho en esta novela es desafiar la mitología tradicional mediante un retrato muy temperamental del Adán y la Eva de la cultura mestiza, Cortés y Malinalli, con la caída del imperio azteca como telón de fondo. Contada con el lirismo de la tradición cantarina y pictórica del náhuatl, Laura Esquivel nos brinda un mito fundacional de la cultura híbrida del Nuevo Mundo y una extraordinaria historia de amor.

Like Water for Chocolate

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Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1400032776
Total Pages : 180 pages
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Download or read book Like Water for Chocolate written by Laura Esquivel and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2002-08-13 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico blends poignant romance, bittersweet wit, and delicious recipes. This classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final days of pregnancy. While still in her mother's womb, her daughter to be weeps so violently she causes an early labor, and little Tita slips out amid the spices and fixings for noodle soup. This early encounter with food soon becomes a way of life, and Tita grows up to be a master chef, using cooking to express herself and sharing recipes with readers along the way.

Like Water for Chocolate

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Publisher : CCV Digital
ISBN 13 : 9781407057415
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Like Water for Chocolate written by Laura Esquivel and published by CCV Digital. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Modern Mexico

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Modern Mexico written by James D. Huck Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This single volume reference resource offers students, scholars, and general readers alike an in-depth background on Mexico, from the complexity of its pre-Columbian civilizations to its social and political development in the context of Western civilization. How did modern Mexico become a nation of multicultural diversity and rich indigenous traditions? What key roles do Mexico's non-Western, pre-Columbian indigenous heritage and subsequent development as a major center in the Spanish colonial empire play the country's identity today? How is Mexico today both Western and non-Western, part Native American and part European, simultaneously traditional and modern? Modern Mexico is a thematic encyclopedia that broadly covers the nation's history, both ancient and modern; its government, politics, and economics; as well as its culture, religion traditions, philosophy, arts, and social structures. Additional topics include industry, labor, social classes and ethnicity, women, education, language, food, leisure and sport, and popular culture. Sidebars, images, and a Day in the Life feature round out the coverage in this accessible, engaging volume. Readers will come to understand how Mexico and the Mexican people today are the result of the processes of transculturation, globalization, and civilizational contact.

Pierced by the Sun

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Publisher : AmazonCrossing
ISBN 13 : 9781503954748
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (547 download)

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Download or read book Pierced by the Sun written by Laura Esquivel and published by AmazonCrossing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lupita's hard-knock life has gotten the better of her time and time again. A childhood robbed of innocence set off a chain of events that she still has not managed to control, no matter how hard she tries. Every time she thinks she has a handle on things, unexpected turns make her question everything, including herself. When Lupita witnesses the murder of a local politician whom she greatly admires, the ghosts of her past resurface as she tries to cope with the present. She quickly falls back into her old self-destructive habits and becomes a target of Mexico's corrupt political machine. As the powers that be kick into high gear to ensure the truth remains hidden, Lupita finds solace in the purity of indigenous traditions. While she learns how to live simply, like her ancestors, she comes to understand herself and rediscovers light within a dark life. And if there is hope for Lupita's redemption, perhaps there is hope for Mexico.

Between Two Fires

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Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
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Download or read book Between Two Fires written by Laura Esquivel and published by Crown. This book was released on 2000 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of "Like Water for Chocolate" and "The Law of Love" presents a beautifully packaged, fully illustrated collection of her shorter writings on food, love, and family. Two-color line drawings throughout.

Strategic Occidentalism

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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810137577
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Strategic Occidentalism by : Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado

Download or read book Strategic Occidentalism written by Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic Occidentalism examines the transformation, in both aesthetics and infrastructure, of Mexican fiction since the late 1970s. During this time a framework has emerged characterized by the corporatization of publishing, a frictional relationship between Mexican literature and global book markets, and the desire of Mexican writers to break from dominant models of national culture. In the course of this analysis, Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado engages with theories of world literature, proposing that “world literature” is a construction produced at various levels, including the national, that must be studied from its material conditions of production in specific sites. In particular, he argues that Mexican writers have engaged in a “strategic Occidentalism” in which their idiosyncratic connections with world literature have responded to dynamics different from those identified by world-systems or diffusionist theorists. Strategic Occidentalism identifies three scenes in which a cosmopolitan aesthetics in Mexican world literature has been produced: Sergio Pitol’s translation of Eastern European and marginal British modernist literature; the emergence of the Crack group as a polemic against the legacies of magical realism; and the challenges of writers like Carmen Boullosa, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Ana García Bergua to the roles traditionally assigned to Latin American writers in world literature.

Tita's Diary

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ISBN 13 : 9781734770674
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Tita's Diary written by Laura Esquivel and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years after the publication of the best-seller Like Water for Chocolate comes Tita's Diary, an intimate look at the life of the main character who embodies love, passion and the communication of emotions through food in early 20th Century Mexico. When Tita falls in love with Pedro, she is told that being the youngest of three sisters, she will never be allowed to marry as she will have to care for her mother. As the second part of a trilogy, Tita's Diary brings to light a secret that will allow readers to rediscover their own intimacy as they turn page after page of never-before-seen photos, hand-pressed flower arrangements, and recipes that were skipped in the original novel. It's the physical manifestation of Tita's dream: to share her thoughts on love, food and alchemy with the world. This touching tale will plunge readers deep into the universe of Like Water for Chocolate, the captivating story that has known no borders.

The Colors of My Past

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ISBN 13 : 9781953596000
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Colors of My Past written by Laura Esquivez and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: