The Significance of Tita’s Feminine and Transformative Power in Laura Esquivel’s Como agua para chocolate
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https://doi.org/10.36399/GroundingsUG.5.241Keywords:
Laura Esquivel, Como agua para chocolate, Female Emancipation, Tradition, Kitchen, Liberation, Tita, Patriarchy, FeminismAbstract
We can analyse Laura Esquivel’s Como agua para chocolate as a novel which delivers a message of female emancipation impeded by the shackles of tradition. In this extract of my dissertation, I examine the plight of the protagonist, Tita, by considering the roles played by the kitchen domain and her mother and sister in her plight as a female struggling for liberation. In Como agua para chocolate, Tita’s outcry for a voice of her own from within the kitchen realm contends with the voice of the patriarchal society of the early 20th century Mexico as embodied by her mother, and it is this conflict which generates scope for feminist analysis of the novel. Therefore, I aim to demonstrate that Tita is instrumental in projecting the novel’s feminist message.
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