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Laura Esquivel's Mexican Fictions
Elizabeth M Willingham (Ed.)
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Description for Laura Esquivel's Mexican Fictions
Hardcover. 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. Editor(s): Willingham, Elizabeth M. Num Pages: 282 pages, illus. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 578.
Outstanding essayists in Latin American literature and film explore Laura Esquivel's critical reputation, contextualise her work in literary movements, and consider her four novels and the film based on Like Water for Chocolate from diverse critical perspectives. The Editor's "An Introduction to Esquivel Criticism" reviews twenty-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 Reverend Dr Stephen Butler Murray explores the ... Read more
Outstanding essayists in Latin American literature and film explore Laura Esquivel's critical reputation, contextualise her work in literary movements, and consider her four novels and the film based on Like Water for Chocolate from diverse critical perspectives. The Editor's "An Introduction to Esquivel Criticism" reviews twenty-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 Reverend Dr Stephen Butler Murray explores the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
Number of Pages
282
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845194109
SKU
V9781845194109
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Ref
99-1
About Elizabeth M Willingham (Ed.)
Elizabeth Moore Willingham is associate professor in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at Baylor University where she teaches Old Spanish, Romance linguistics, Hispanic Women Writers, and Hispanic literature and film.
Reviews for Laura Esquivel's Mexican Fictions
Laura Esquivel's Mexican Fictions won the Harvey L. Johnson Book Award for2011 conferred by the South Central Organization of Latin American Studiesat its 44th annual Congress in Miami, Florida (March 9, 2012).