In Like Water for Chocolate the kitchen represents both impr…
In Like Water for Chocolate the kitchen represents both imprisonment and liberation. Discuss this paradox in the texts. In your answer, you might like to focus on one or more of the following: The symbolic significance of food and/or the kitchen and how this evolves throughout the novel The physical setting of the kitchen as a gendered space Esquivel’s use of magical realism to highlight imprisonment and liberation. Use multiple specific examples from the whole text to support your points.