Chocolate: How a New World Commodity Conquered Spanish Literature

by Erin Alice Cowling

In terms of its popularity, as well as its production, chocolate was among the first foods to travel from the New World to Spain. Chocolate: How a New World Commodity Conquered Spanish Literature considers chocolate as an object of collective memory used to bridge the transatlantic gap through Spanish literary works of the early modern period, tracing the mention of chocolate from indigenous legends and early chronicles of the conquistadors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487527209
• ISBN13: 9781487527204
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"