The women in this canon included Inés Arredondo, Dorelia Barahona, Rosario Castellanos, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and María Luisa Mendoza. In ‘Intimas’ Esquivel also traces a tradition of Hispanic women who have written about food, knowledge, and pleasure. This article uncovers the extent to which Como agua met the standards of nueva literatura set out by Esquivel. ‘Intimas’ calls for, and outlines the characteristics of, a nueva literatura which would foster new ways of understanding the relationships between food, knowledge, and pleasure. This article calls for a re-assessment of Como agua in light of Esquivel’s own overlooked theoretical interventions published in an essay entitled ‘Intimas suculencias. Esquivel’s subsequent work has received scant attention. On the other hand, it is dismissed as ‘light literature’. On the one hand, Como agua is associated with the ‘boom femenino’ of Spanish American women’s writing in the 1980s. Since it was published thirty years ago Laura Esquivel’s first novel Como agua para chocolate has been the subject of intense critical debate.
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