Abstract

SANELEUTERIO, Elia. Subversion of consciousness in Rosario Castellanos: a didactic approach to “Lección de cocina”. Lit. mex [online]. 2017, vol.28, n.1, pp.99-116. ISSN 2448-8216.

A newlywed woman’s stream of consciousness, while roasting two steaks, structures Rosario Castellanos’ “Lección de cocina”. The speech is inter-spersed with her own culture, marital experiences and sunburn suffered during the honeymoon. Thoughts are subverted at the same time the food is cooked, which is also burned because of her culinary inexperience. All of this results in a symbolic interweaving: roast beef as correlative of flesh, intercourse and literary action, especially insofar as these affect women. This triple characterization supports my proposal for reading this story from an educational perspective, not only literary, since each layer is seasoned by the oppression in Mexican society.

Keywords : symbol; literary training; body; feminism; Mexican narrative.

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