Celebrar, tragar, amamantar lo cubano: los contextos culinarios en Cecilia Valdés de Cirilo Villaverde
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18441/ibam.9.2009.36.27-46Keywords:
Cirilo Villaverde, Literatura cubana, Abolicionismo, Siglo XIX, Cuban Literature, Food studies, Abolitionism, 19th CenturyAbstract
Se hace un análisis detenido de las referencias culinarias en la novela decimonónica Cecilia Valdés del cubano Cirilo Villaverde en cada fase del ciclo producción-distribución- preparación-consumo, enfocando sus múltiples connotaciones posibles (económicas, sociales, raciales, morales, identitarias, etc.). Esta lectura ‘gastrocrítica’ permite destacar las múltiples contradicciones y ambigüedades que presenta la novela al nivel identitario, racial, social. Además, muchas menciones gastronómicas ‘significan’ de manera simbólica o metafórica y matizan de esta manera el realismo de esta obra fundacional.
Abstract
This article proposes an analysis in depth of the culinary allusions in the nineteenth-century novel Cecilia Valdés by Cuban writer Cirilo Villaverde. The multiple connotations of food (economic, social, racial, moral, identitarian, etc.) are examined and interpreted for each stage in the cycle of production, distribution, preparation, consumption. This ‘gastrocritical’ approach underlines the various social, racial and identitarian contradictions and ambiguities of the novel. Besides, many culinary references have a symbolic or metaphorical meaning and question to some extent the realism of this foundational fiction.
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