Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 18:34:14 -0500 (CDT) From: Quetzil Castaneda <Quetzil-AT-uh.edu> Subject: Re: water for chocolate so, i guess the history of a people, or of a literature does not interest you? or is not important in the study of that people/literature? q At 02:38 PM 4/30/96 -0400, you wrote: >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? > > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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