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.

A short anthology of texts extracted from authors of Spanish-American literatures (16th-21th centuries)
C. Cattarulla (a cura di), 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 (qualunque edizione);
C. Lévy-Strauss, “El triángulo culinario”, en Lévy-Strauss: estructuralismo y diálectica, Buenos Aires, Paidós, 1968, pp. 4 (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.