Anita Brenner y sus diarios en México (1925-1927). Las dimensiones de la comida

Résumé

The Mexican-born, nationalised American writer Anita Brenner (1905-1974) wrote her diaries in Mexico during the reconstruction after the 1910-1920 Mexican Revolution. She was a friend of the writers and artists of the ‘Mexican Renaissance’ who sought to recover a genuine Mexican identity in history, literature, art and indigenous cultures. In her records, she referred to her research on Mexico, her vision as a modern girl, her gaze on the indigenous people and the events of her time. She also highlighted the food, observing several aspects of it: ethnography, consumption with friends and at work, the desire to look thin. Drawing on the methodology of written culture, this contribution examines how, when writing about food, its spac- es, its meanings, the intimate act of eating constituted part of her political stance as a ‘Mexican’ to which she and her group were committed in their writing about this countr