![]() Karen Elias-Button: 205 LAURA Esquivel’s Como agua para chocolate –novela de entregas mensuales con recetas, amores y remedios caseros is a contemporary Mexican novel first published in 1989 that can be analyzed in various ways. MOTHER-DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIP IN LAURA ESQUIVEL ’S COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE JEANINE LINO PEREZ By confronting the Terrible Mother in order to move beyond the entanglements of the mother/daughter relationship, and by claiming her as a metaphor for the sources of our own creative powers, women are creating new self-configurations in which the mother is no longer the necessary comfort but the seed of a new being, and in which we are no longer the protected child but the carriers of the new woman whose birth is our own. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]()
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