Control and Resistance: Food Discourse in Franco Spain (Toronto Iberic) - Hardcover

Anderson, Lara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1487506694 ISBN 13: 9781487506698

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2020

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Lara Anderson is convenor of the Spanish & Latin American Studies program at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1487506694
• ISBN 13: 9781487506698
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192