Body-swapping and genre-crossing: Laura Esquivel's 'La ley del amor'.
| Publisher | Modern Humanities Research Association |
| Publication | The Modern Language Review |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0026-7937 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 97 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Published | 2002-04-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | Laura Esquivel |
| Author | n/a | Claire Louise Taylor |
In this article I consider the second of Laura Esquivel's novels, La ley del amor, published some six years after Como agua para chocolate (1989), a work that attracted a great deal of critical attention in both Mexico and abroad. (1) La ley del amor initially received considerable interest, although critical and public reception was mixed. To date, few academic articles have been published on this work, whilst reviews in newspapers and journals remain mixed, and sales have failed to reach the astronomical heights of the earlier novel. (2) Whereas the first novel, with its timely...
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