TY - GEN T1 - Cooking up the nation : Spanish culinary texts and culinary nationalization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century T2 - Colección Támesis. Monografías ; A1 - Anderson, Lara, Ph. D. LA - English PP - Woodbridge PB - Tamesis YR - 2013 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn850177935 AB - "This book looks at the textual attempts to construct a national cuisine made in Spain at the turn of the last century. At the same time that attempts to unify the country were being made in law and narrated in fiction, Mariano Pardo de Figueroa (1828-1918) and José Castro y Serrano (1829-96), Angel Muro Goiri (1839 - 1897), Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921) and Dionisio Pérez (1872-1935) all tried to find ways of bringing Spaniards together through a common language about food. In line with this nationalist goal, all of the texts examined in this book contain strategies and rhetoric typical of nineteenth-century nation-building projects. The nationalist agenda of these culinary texts comes as little surprise when we consider the importance of nation building to Spanish cultural and political life at the time of their publication. At this time Spaniards were forced to confront many questions relating to their national identity, such as the state's lackluster nationalizing policies, the loss of empire, national degeneration and regeneration and their country's cultural dependence on France. In their discussions about how to nationalize Spanish food, all of the authors under consideration here tap into these wider political and cultural issues about what it meant to be Spanish at this time. Lara Anderson is Lecturer in Spanish Studies at the University of Melbourne"--EBL. OP - 171 CN - TX723.5.S7 SN - 9781782041313 SN - 1782041311 SN - 9781299789456 SN - 1299789455 SN - 9781855662469 SN - 1855662469 KW - Cooking, Spanish. KW - Cooking, Spanish : History : 19th century. KW - Cooking, Spanish : History : 20th century. KW - Cooking : Spain : History. KW - Food writing : Spain : History. KW - Cuisine espagnole. KW - Cuisine espagnole : Histoire : 19e siècle. KW - Cuisine espagnole : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Cuisine : Art d'écrire : Espagne : Histoire. KW - COOKING : Regional & Ethnic : Spanish. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : Spanish & Portuguese. KW - Cookbooks KW - Cooking KW - Cooking, Spanish KW - Food writing KW - Spain KW - 1800-1999 KW - History ER -