Esquivel, Laura - Kristine Ibsen (essay date Spring 1995)
Kristine Ibsen (essay date Spring 1995)
SOURCE: “On Recipes, Reading and Revolution: Postboom Parody in Como agua para chocolate,1” in Hispanic Review, Vol. 63, No. 2, Spring, 1995, pp. 133–46.
[In the following essay, Ibsen explains that Como agua para chocolate is not feminine literature as much as it is a parody of male-orientated literature.]
Despite its popularity with the reading public, initial critical reaction to Laura Esquivel’s Como agua para chocolate (1989) has often tended to dismiss the work as, at best, a poor imitation of the male canon. Probably the most extreme reaction thus far has been Antonio Marquet's analysis, which characterizes the novel as “simplista … infantil … plagada de convencionalismos banales, despojada de una intención estilística definida y … [sin] otra aspiración que ser novedosa” (58). Closer to the mainstream of critical response, George McMurray...
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