Like Water for Chocolate: The Rewriting of the Female Experience and Its Parallels in Philippine History

This article focuses on Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate and reads the novel using the literary theories of the “new mestiza,” postcolonial theories, feminist theories, and historiographic metafiction. It seeks to find out how this novel rewrites the female experience of the Mexican Revolut...

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Main Author: Marikit Tara Alto Uychoco
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Philippines 2012-06-01
Series:Humanities Diliman
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Online Access:http://www.journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/humanitiesdiliman/article/view/3371/3139