Cooking as Mestizaje in Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s “Making Tortillas”

Reconciling Chicana Lesbian Identity through the Space of the Kitchen
dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage33en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage44en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume15en_US
dc.contributor.authorFaller Moura, Carolina
dc.contributor.editorAude, Richard
dc.contributor.editorAustilat, Katharina
dc.contributor.editorBillinghurst, Parker
dc.contributor.editorDannenfeld-Dennehy, Owen
dc.contributor.editorHahnemann, Max Vincent
dc.contributor.editorKleinfeld, Charlie
dc.contributor.editorKratzenstein, Leonie M. J.
dc.contributor.editorMai, Lena K.
dc.contributor.editorMaurer, Céline
dc.contributor.editorPoteshkina, Anna
dc.contributor.editorMartin, Laura S.
dc.contributor.editorSadlik, Vivian
dc.contributor.editorScardi, Valeska
dc.contributor.editorStüpfert, Nadine
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-08T15:23:49Z
dc.date.available2022-12-08T15:23:49Z
dc.date.issued2022en_US
dc.description.abstractFeminist and queer food studies scholars have read the kitchen simultaneously as a place of oppression and of liberation, where the regulations of the heteropatriarchy are enacted but also subverted. This space has been explored by Chicana lesbian poets such as Alicia Gaspar de Alba, who in “Making Tortillas” uses the images, sounds, smells, and flavors of Mexican cuisine as metaphors for sex and intimacy between women, reclaiming and, at the same time, queering her heritage. By drawing from Chicana and food studies scholarship, I argue that Gaspar de Alba uses cooking in her poem as a tool to reconcile her sexual and cultural identities, and that the kitchen is a particularly suited space for the work of mestizaje—the epistemology proposed by Monica Torres, based on Gloria Anzaldúa’s theories, which moves away from dichotomies to give place for assumed contradictions to coexist and interact.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.54465/aspeers.15-05
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/2761
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.issn18658768en_US
dc.relation.journalaspeersen_US
dc.relation.journalaltemerging voices in american studiesen_US
dc.rightsL::CC BY 3.0en_US
dc.subject.ddcddc:305.3en_US
dc.subject.fieldamericanstudiesen_US
dc.subject.fieldgenderstudiesen_US
dc.titleCooking as Mestizaje in Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s “Making Tortillas”en_US
dc.title.alternativeReconciling Chicana Lesbian Identity through the Space of the Kitchenen_US
dc.typearticleen_US
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