Control and Resistance: Food Discourse in Franco Spain

by Lara Anderson

Control and Resistance reveals the various ways in which food writing of the early Franco era was a potent political tool, producing ways of eating and thinking about food that privileged patriotism over personal desire. The author examines a diverse range of official and non-official food texts to highlight how discourse helped construct and contest identities in line with the three ideological pillars of the regime: autarky, prescriptive gender...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487506694
• ISBN13: 9781487506698
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.0"