Alicia Rico (University of Nevada - Las Vegas)
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This session provides a venue for analysis of Spanish-speaking cultural productions grouped thematically around Food Studies. It brings together scholars who share that interest, thus creating the potential for future collaborations.
Food is an integral part of daily life; every celebration goes hand in hand with food, but also every crisis brings out the scarcity and inequity of food distribution. Spanish literature, on both sides of the Atlantic, is filled with starving characters, from Lazarillo, Periquillo Sarniento onwards, who denounce life conditions. But food representation takes on different flavors. Although certainly not new, Food Studies has been gaining visibility in academia at the same time that food cultural products have taken the main stage, not only in multiple magazines, short-stories, and novels but also in cinema and TV programs. This session engages with food representation in Spanish-language cultural productions: literature, cookbooks, cinema, and television.
The purpose of this session is to provide a venue to present analysis on Spanish-speaking cultural productions grouped thematically around Food Studies. It will bring together scholars who share that interest and thus creates the potential for future collaborations.
Food is an integral part of daily life; every celebration goes hand in hand with food, but also every crisis brings out the scarcity and inequity of food distribution. Spanish literature, on both sides of the Atlantic, is filled with starving characters, from Lazarillo, Periquillo Sarniento onwards, who denounce life conditions. But food representation takes on different flavors. Although certainly not new, Food Studies has been gaining visibility in academia at the same time that food cultural products have taken the main stage, not only in multiple magazines, short-stories, and novels but also in cinema and TV programs. This session invites papers that engage with food representation in Spanish-language cultural productions: literature, cookbooks, cinema, and television. Given the conference theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” proposals that explore food, class, power, and tradition are welcome, but not required.