STUFF is our look at the cultural myths that link Latin women and
food to the erotic in the Western popular imagination. We weave our way
through multi-lingual sex guides, fast food menus, bawdy border humor, and
much more. Our spoof, however, is not without a serious side. Latin American
literature is full of references to cannibalism - as the European colonial’s
fear of the indigenous “other” as a cannibal, as a trope for
Europe and America’s ravaging of Latin America’s resources,
and finally, as the symbolic revenge of the colonized who feed off the colonial.
If food here serves as a metaphor for sex, then eating represents consumption
in its crudest form. Cultural consumption involves the trafficking of that
which is most dear to us all - our identities, our myths and our bodies.
STUFF is our commentary on how globalization and “cultural tourism” leave
Latin women little choice other than to satisfy consumer desires for “a
bit of the other. ” |
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