THE SPACE OF FEMALE PROSE: KITCHEN (BY THE MATERIALS OF MEXICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE)

Abstract

Semantics of kitchen space in Mexican-American female prose is analyzed in the article. The author pays the special attention to the varied attitude of modern Chicano authoresses to kitchen space traditionally understood as a female one.

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• Published: October 15, 2010.

Keywords

• пространство
• кухня
• идентичность
• традиция
• патриархальная культура
• гендер
• женская литература
• культурные ценности
• space
• kitchen
• identity
• tradition
• patriarchal culture
• gender
• female literature
• cultural values

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