Like Water for Chocolate | Spanish American Women Writers: Simmering Identity Over a Low Fire
In this excerpt, Bilbija examines traditional feminine and masculine roles as they are presented in Like Water for Chocolate.
When Virginia Woolf argues in A Room of One's Own for an appropriate and pertinent place for a woman, she never mentions the kitchen as a possible space in which her intellectual liberation from the patriarchal system could be enacted. At first glance, this area had always been assigned to a wife, servant, daughter, slave, mother, grandmother, sister or an aunt. For feminists, the kitchen has come to symbolize the world that traditionally marginalized and limited a woman. It represents a space associated with repetitive work, lacking any "real" creativity, and having no...
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