From: Badgart-AT-aol.com
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 14:38:53 -0400
Subject: Re: water for chocolate


In a message dated 96-04-26 18:56:34 EDT, you write:

>
>like water for chocolate, however has a very significant subtheme or plot
>regarding chicano/mexican/american/anglo american history-identity.  the
>love story between the mexican and anglo elites on the borderlands in the
>erased moment of mex. revolution and political economic transformations in
>texas.... and, to say that this movie is irrelevant for  course on chicano
>lit (even for the moment to exclude latino lit) is to IGNORE the story:  the
>entire narrative unfolds before the readers eyes as the eyes of the
>storyteller eyes fill with water from the onions she is cutting in a
>modern-- clearly "western"/anglo -- kitchen in a clearly angloamerican
>stylized middle class house in Somewhere City in USA.
>
>to dismiss water for chocolate because it is "from another country" i think
>is, well, a mistake.
>
>
Quetzil,

I don't see the film (or the novel) as you do.  To see a relationship to
Chicanos in the film is a reach considering it takes place before we knew
about such terms and categories.  

Cordially,
Beatriz

P.S.  where are you at?


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