Università Roma Tre

Semiotic and anthropological studies have highlighted how power relations, distinctions between social classes, gender issues, links between distant peoples, national, local and mixed race identities, religious practices or doctrinal patterns and even literary traditions are defined (or self-defined) through the food communication system. The module explores some of these issues through texts that now belong to the Hispanic American literary tradition and which also contribute to the formation of an archive of the culinary tradition and its memory.

C. Cattarulla (ed.), Identità culinarie in Sudamerica, Roma, Nova Delphi, 2017;
E. Echeverría, Apología del matambre https://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/1952469/mod_resource/content/1/apolog%C3%ADa%20del%20matambre.pdf
L. Esquivel, Como agua para chocolate (any edition);
C. Lévy-Strauss, “El triángulo culinario”, en Lévy-Strauss: estructuralismo y diálectica, Buenos Aires, Paidós, 1968, pp. 4 (pdf.)
L. V. Mansilla, Una excursión a los indios ranqueles (a selection of texts) https://www.biblioteca.org.ar/libros/10068.pdf
K. S. Salkjelsvik, “El desvío como norma: la retórica de la receta en Como agua para chocolate”, Revista Iberoamericana, LXV, 186 (enero-marzo 1999), pp. 171-182;
A. Salvioni, "Gastronomía de la pampa. (La escena convivial en Una excursión a los indios ranqueles)", Letterature d'America, a. XXXVI, n. 158 (2016), pp. 5-31.