File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1996/96-05-28.011, message 202


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?
>
>
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