Date of Graduation
2001
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Type
MA
Committee Chair
Kathleen McNerney
Abstract
This research shows that mexican novel Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel belongs to the Magical Realism due to it contains several characteristics of this Latin American current such as syncretisms, myths, legends, and social problems like femenine repression. Furthermore, it is shown that Esquivel’s work is not light and does not imitate Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s work. In chapter 1 of this work, historical aspects within the novel are be analyzed such as slavery in the United States and the participation of women soldier, soldaderas,in the Mexican Revolution. In chapter 2, aspects of magical realism like sincretisms, myths, legends, and the uncanny as a result of syncretisms in the life of Tita de la Garza are analyzed. In chapter 3, the social problem of femenine represion and what different femenine characters in the novel represent. Finally, it is established that Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate belongs to Magical Realism, it is not a light literary work, and it is not a copy of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s work.
Recommended Citation
Garcia, Hugo, "El realismo mágico en la vida de Tita de la Garza. (Análisis histórico de la novela mexicana Como agua para Chocolate)" (2001). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports. 10553.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/10553