Iguarias barrocas: ficção, comida e política na América Latina / Baroque custards: fiction, food and politics in Latin America

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

Within the diversity of new baroque Latin American postulations existing during the 20th century there is a constant: their political speech is submitted to the reception of European baroque theories. This paper analyzes the relationship between this politization diffused mainly throughout debates about literary historiography and the representation of food that appeared in different fictional texts since the middle of 19th century up to the seventieth of the 20th. That hypothesis sustained that such a linkage would erect a complex rhetorical mechanism --rhetoric of food-- which would politically act inside the essence of fiction. This paper aims to establish the theoretical possibility of this statement developing the topic in two parts. The first part refers to baroque reception in Latin America as a term and theory from a point of view of a heterodox perspective that tries to evaluate the roll of baroque in the historiography as well as in the critical readings all over the 20th. In the second part, the analysis of works proceeds around four types of food representation: alimentation, anthropophagi, starvation and banquets. Consequently, this paper is about a reading, which without refusing contributions made by historiography and traditional interpretations, proposes alternative and singular connections among a variety of works written by Latin American writers beyond the boundaries imposed in the patterns of national or continental literature

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literatura latino-americana história e crítica culinária na literatura literatura latino-americana séc.xxi fiction literatura latino-americana literatura comparada ficção latino-americana séc. xix barroco latin american literature literatura latino-americana - historiografia baroque ficção

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