Control and Resistance

Food Discourse in Franco Spain

By: Lara Anderson

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Hardcover | 20 March 2020

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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 roles, and monolithic nationalism. Official food discourse produced an audience with a taste for local foodstuffs, and also created a unified gastronomic space in which regional cuisines were co-opted for the purposes of culinary nationalism.

The author discusses a genre of official texts directed solely at women, which demanded women's compliance and exclusive dedication to domesticity. Alongside such examples, Control and Resistance includes texts that offered resistance to the Franco hegemony. Food texts have traditionally been viewed as apolitical because of their connections with domesticity, so they were not subject to the same degree of censorship as other published works. Accordingly, food writing was at times more capable of offering disruptive or resistant textual spaces than other forms of discourse.

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Control and Resistance closes a huge gap in our understanding of Francoism and brings a wealth of previously unexplored primary sources and a rich repertoire of new theoretical tools into the field of study of Spanish Cultural Studies. It also ties together the issues of patriarchy, social control, domesticity, textuality, and nation-building, all through the exciting and under-researched set of sources.

- Eugenia Afinoguenova, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Marquette University

Control and Resistance is an important work in the study of modern Spain's 'foodways' (food in relation to culture and gastronomy) and its intersection with the country's history, politics and culture. The research is solid, and the texts examined will inspire further research.

- H. Rosi Song, Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Durham

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