The star-studded bash honors Burnett for her decades-long career in the entertainment industry. The preface specifically addresses "scholars, researchers, teachers, non-specialists, and students," and provides brief overviews of the collection's essays, describes the rationale behind the book's organization, and explains that "certain aspects of the apparatus designed.Carol Burnett's 90th birthday special on NBC - sweetly titled Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love - airs April 26 and will be available for your streaming pleasure after that date on Peacock. The collection is made up of fifteen essays, including a biographic essay, a critical bibliography, a glossary of Spanish and Nahuatl words and phrases, a list of abbreviations, a comprehensive Works Cited, and an index, in addition to the usual editor's preface and acknowledgements. Essays on Like Water for Chocolate (both the novel and the film) comprise more than half of the collection (as does most of the scholarship on Esquivel's work, as evidenced by a search of the MLA Bibliography) the remaining three novels are represented by only five scholarly essays.
My only quibble with it would be the imbalance in the coverage of the four novels. The book is well organized, carefully thought-out, and potentially very useful to scholars and to students. The sole subject of the latter is Like Water for Chocolate therefore, Willingham's collection takes the honor as the first and, thus far, only collection of essays on all four of Esquivel's novels: Like Water for Chocolate, The Law of Love, Swift as Desire, and Malinche: A Novel. $69.50 (cloth).Įlizabeth Moore Willingham's edited collection of essays on Laura Esquivel's rather modest fictional output declares itself on the cover as the "first book-length treatment of Laura Esquivel's fiction." Indeed, only two book-length collections of essays focus entirely on Laura Esquivel, both published in 2010: this one and a second, published in the Netherlands, entitled A Recipe for Discourse: Perspectives on Like Water for Chocolate, edited by Corwin, Skipper, and Meyer. Laura Esquivel's Mexican Fictions: Like Water for Chocolate, The Law of Love, Swift as Desire, Malinche: A Novel.
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