The Poetics of Fire : Metaphors of Chile Eating in the Borderlands EPUB
by Victor M. Valle
Part of the Querencias Series series
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In The Poetics of Fire, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and Chicano author Victor M. Valle posits the chile as a metaphor for understanding the shared cultural histories of ChicanX and LatinX peoples from preconquest Mesoamerica to twentieth-century New Mexico. Valle uses the chile as a decolonizing lens through which to analyze preconquest Mesoamerican cosmology, early European exploration, and the forced conversion of Native peoples to Catholicism as well as European and Mesoamerican perspectives on food and place. Assembling a rich collection of source material, Valle highlights the fiery fruit's overarching importance as evidenced by the ubiquity of references to the plant over several centuries in literature, art, official documents, and more to offer a new eco-aesthetic reading-a reframing of culinary history from a pluralistic, non-Western perspective.
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:312 pages
- Publisher:University of New Mexico Press
- Publication Date:15/11/2023
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- ISBN:9780826365552
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:312 pages
- Publisher:University of New Mexico Press
- Publication Date:15/11/2023
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- ISBN:9780826365552
