Like Water for Chocolate: A Masterpiece in Feminist Literature

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Like Water for Chocolate: A Masterpiece in Feminist Literature
For a first time novelist, Laura Esquivel has definitely made her mark in the genre of magical realism portraying the coming of age of feminism in Mexico. This work is certainly going to be a classic in feminist literature writing in most appropriate medium of fantastic imagery and symbolism even perhaps equaling the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez who is the founder of magical realism ADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Garcia Marquez", "given" : "Gabriel.", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "1988" ] ] }, "publisher" : "Penguin", "publisher-place" : "New York", "title" : "Love in the Time of Cholera", "type" : "book" }, "uris" : [ "/documents/?uuid=8ecb395d-298e-489e-bcb9-eace0fc64076" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Garcia Marquez)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(Garcia Marquez). Like Water for Chocolate has met instant success as a novel and later on as a movie which became one of the largest profit earners among foreign films in the United States. Laura Esquivel herself received 12 awards for this particular work. She wrote seven other novels among which are: The Law of Love, Between Two Fires and Malinche. Despite her being a very creative and productive writer, she still finds time to become an amazing Mexican politician to date. Like Water for Chocolate is actually a story about the coming of age of Mexican feminism epitomized by the character of Tita ADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Carpentier", "given" : "Alejo.", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "container-title" : "Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community", "editor" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Lois Parkinson Zamora", "given" : "Wendy B. Faris", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "1995" ] ] }, "publisher" : "Duke UP", "publisher-place" : "Durham", "title" : "On the Marvelous Real in America", "type" : "chapter" }, "uris" : [ "/documents/?uuid=7e07a191-1bee-474f-a43a-e51efbb2f365" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Carpentier)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(Carpentier). Tita is the symbol of all the domesticated women of Mexico who undergoes a painful and step by step process of liberation and comes out victorious in the realization of her own power all done in the name of love. In the words of Maria Elena de Vald�...