Control and Resistance : Food Discourse in Franco Spain /
Anderson, Lara
Control and Resistance : Food Discourse in Franco Spain / Lara Anderson. - 1 online resource (192 p.) - Toronto Iberic .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Food Discourse and the Production of Autarkic Subjectivities -- 2. Beyond the Kitchen: Food Texts, Gender, and Compliance in Franco Spain -- 3. A Recipe for Spain: The Production of a Unified Gastronomic Space and the Gendering of Gastronomy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Control and Resistance reveals the various ways in which food writing of the early Franco era was a potent political tool, producing ways of eating and thinking about food that privileged patriotism over personal desire. The author examines a diverse range of official and non-official food texts to highlight how discourse helped construct and contest identities in line with the three ideological pillars of the regime: autarky, prescriptive gender roles, and monolithic nationalism. Official food discourse produced an audience with a taste for local foodstuffs, and also created a unified gastronomic space in which regional cuisines were co-opted for the purposes of culinary nationalism. The author discusses a genre of official texts directed solely at women, which demanded women’s compliance and exclusive dedication to domesticity. Alongside such examples, Control and Resistance includes texts that offered resistance to the Franco hegemony. Food texts have traditionally been viewed as apolitical because of their connections with domesticity, so they were not subject to the same degree of censorship as other published works. Accordingly, food writing was at times more capable of offering disruptive or resistant textual spaces than other forms of discourse.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781487534677
10.3138/9781487534677 doi
Cookbooks--Political aspects--History--Spain--20th century.
Food habits--Political aspects--History--Spain--20th century.
Food writing--Political aspects--History--Spain--20th century.
Food--Political aspects--History--Spain--20th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Culinary patriotism. Food and control. Food and resistance. Food. Franco Spain. Gastronomic space. Monolithic food culture. autarky. biopolitics. food and nationalism. food writing. gender. history of cookbooks.
TX723.5.S7 / A54 2020
641.594609/045
Control and Resistance : Food Discourse in Franco Spain / Lara Anderson. - 1 online resource (192 p.) - Toronto Iberic .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Food Discourse and the Production of Autarkic Subjectivities -- 2. Beyond the Kitchen: Food Texts, Gender, and Compliance in Franco Spain -- 3. A Recipe for Spain: The Production of a Unified Gastronomic Space and the Gendering of Gastronomy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Control and Resistance reveals the various ways in which food writing of the early Franco era was a potent political tool, producing ways of eating and thinking about food that privileged patriotism over personal desire. The author examines a diverse range of official and non-official food texts to highlight how discourse helped construct and contest identities in line with the three ideological pillars of the regime: autarky, prescriptive gender roles, and monolithic nationalism. Official food discourse produced an audience with a taste for local foodstuffs, and also created a unified gastronomic space in which regional cuisines were co-opted for the purposes of culinary nationalism. The author discusses a genre of official texts directed solely at women, which demanded women’s compliance and exclusive dedication to domesticity. Alongside such examples, Control and Resistance includes texts that offered resistance to the Franco hegemony. Food texts have traditionally been viewed as apolitical because of their connections with domesticity, so they were not subject to the same degree of censorship as other published works. Accordingly, food writing was at times more capable of offering disruptive or resistant textual spaces than other forms of discourse.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781487534677
10.3138/9781487534677 doi
Cookbooks--Political aspects--History--Spain--20th century.
Food habits--Political aspects--History--Spain--20th century.
Food writing--Political aspects--History--Spain--20th century.
Food--Political aspects--History--Spain--20th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Culinary patriotism. Food and control. Food and resistance. Food. Franco Spain. Gastronomic space. Monolithic food culture. autarky. biopolitics. food and nationalism. food writing. gender. history of cookbooks.
TX723.5.S7 / A54 2020
641.594609/045