The Poetics of Fire: Metaphors of Chile Eating in the Borderlands

by Victor M. Valle

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082636554X
• ISBN13: 9780826365545
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"