The Poetics of Fire: Metaphors of Chile Eating in the Borderlands - Paperback
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Victor M. ValleSeries:QuerenciasPublish date:11/15/2023Pages:312
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Unm PressISBN-13:9780826365545ISBN-10:082636554XUPC:9780826365545Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Americas (North Central South West Indies), Agriculture & Food (see also Political Science, Customs & TraditionsBook Topic:Public PolicySize:8.90 x 5.98 x 1.02 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCZD7WWBVV
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Unm PressISBN-13:9780826365545ISBN-10:082636554XUPC:9780826365545Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Americas (North Central South West Indies), Agriculture & Food (see also Political Science, Customs & TraditionsBook Topic:Public PolicySize:8.90 x 5.98 x 1.02 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCZD7WWBVV
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