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As Food Studies has grown into a well-established field, literary scholars have not fully addressed the prevalent themes of food, eating, and consumption in Chicana/o literature. Here, contributors propose food consciousness as a paradigm to examine the literary discourses of Chicana/o authors as they shift from the nation to the postnation.

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PART I: TRANSLATABLE FOODS 1. Diabetes, Culture, and Food: Posthumanist Nutrition in the Gloria Anzaldúa Archive; Suzanne Bost 2. Bologna Tacos and Kitchen Slaves: Food and Identity in Sandra Cisneros´s Caramelo; Heather Salter 3. Food Journeys in Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation and Woman Hollering Creek; Norma L. Cárdenas PART II: THE TASTE OF AUTHENTICITY 4. ´Because Feeding is the Beginning and End´: Food Politics in Ana Castillo´s So Far From God; Elizabeth Lee Steere 5. Food, Consciousness and Feminism in Denise Chávez´s Loving Pedro Infante; Laura P. Alonso Gallo PART III: THE VOICE OF HUNGER 6. Families Who Eat Together, Stay Together: But Should They?´; Meredith E. Abarca 7. La Comida y La Conciencia: Foods in the Counter-Poetics of Lorna Dee Cervantes; Edith Vásquez, University of California, Riverside, & Irene Vásquez 8. Hungers and Desires: Borderlands Appetites; Norma E. Cantú PART IV: MACHOS OR COOKS 9. Chicano Culinarius: From Cowboys to Gastronomers; Nieves Pascual 10. Mexican Meat Matzah Balls: Burciaga as a Culinary Ambassador; Mimi Reisel Gladstein 11. Reading the Taco Shop Poets in the Crossroads of Chicano Postnationalism; Paul Allatson

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"Editors Nieves Pascual Soler and Meredith E. Abarca offer in their collection, Rethinking Chicana/o Literature through Food: Postnational Appetites, a cornucopia of exceptional essays that apply their newly constructed theoretical paradigm based on food and food consciousness in the analysis and hermeneutics of Chicano/a literary production. The authors brilliantly posit that food preparation and consumption extant in literary discourse is a vehicle of communication encoding various acts of rebellion against marginalization and exclusion in a patriarchal nation. Foodways, Soler and Abarca splendidly and provocatively assert, provide a means of ´redefining subjectivities in postnational cultures.´ This is a must-read scholarly work for those interested in the construction of national and postnational subjectivities." - María Herrera-Sobek, Associate Vice Chancellor, Professor of Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

"Covering a diverse range of writers and texts, this collection is a valuable contribution to food studies and literary scholarship that has overlooked the presence of food and consumption in Chicana/o writing. Abarca and Pascual Soler provide a much-needed study on how food in Chicana/o literature creates and represents consciousness/concientización, thus shifting the Anzaldúan border paradigm from an ´open wound´ to an ´open mouth.´ A study like this was long overdue." - Cristina Herrera, Associate Professor of Chicano and Latin American Studies, California State University, Fresno, USA

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