Programme

Semiotic and anthropological studies have highlighted how power relations, distinctions between social classes, gender issues, links between distant peoples, national, local and mixed race identities, religious practices or doctrinal patterns and even literary traditions are defined (or self-defined) through the food communication system. The module explores some of these issues through texts that now belong to the Hispanic American literary tradition and which also contribute to the formation of an archive of the culinary tradition and its memory.

Core Documentation

C. Cattarulla (ed.), Identità culinarie in Sudamerica, Roma, Nova Delphi, 2017;
E. Echeverría, Apología del matambre https://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/1952469/mod_resource/content/1/apolog%C3%ADa%20del%20matambre.pdf
L. Esquivel, Como agua para chocolate (any edition);
C. Lévy-Strauss, “El triángulo culinario”, en Lévy-Strauss: estructuralismo y diálectica, Buenos Aires, Paidós, 1968, pp. 4 (pdf.)
L. V. Mansilla, Una excursión a los indios ranqueles (a selection of texts) https://www.biblioteca.org.ar/libros/10068.pdf
K. S. Salkjelsvik, “El desvío como norma: la retórica de la receta en Como agua para chocolate”, Revista Iberoamericana, LXV, 186 (enero-marzo 1999), pp. 171-182;
A. Salvioni, "Gastronomía de la pampa. (La escena convivial en Una excursión a los indios ranqueles)", Letterature d'America, a. XXXVI, n. 158 (2016), pp. 5-31.

Type of delivery of the course

Frontal lessons. In the case of an extension of the health emergency by COVID-19, all the provisions governing the way in which educational activities are carried out will be implemented. In particular, the following modalities will be applied: distance learning through the Microsoft Teams platform.

Attendance

Attendance is obligatory at least for 75%.

Type of evaluation

The learning process is carried out through an remote oral exam lasting between 20 and 30 minuts. During the exam, the student will have to demonstrate the actual comprehension of the text in program and the ability to interpret critically. In the case of an extension of the health emergency by COVID-19, all the provisions governing the evaluation procedure will be transposed. In particular, the following modalities will be applied: remote examinations through the Microsoft Teams platform.