Victor M Valle
Victor Valle, an Emeritus professor at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, specializes in urban studies, culinary cultural studies, and creative nonfiction. Prior to starting his twenty-eight-year-long teaching and research career, Valle reported for the Los Angeles Times from 1981 to 1989; in 1984 he shared a Pulitzer Prize with fellow Latina/o journalists. His most recent honors include a 2011-2012 fellowship from Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies and a 2014-2015 Fulbright Fellowship. The University of Nebraska Press released his latest book, Dispatches from A Decolonial Rebellion: Latina/o Non-fiction in the L.A. Borderlands in April, 2018. . Some of his other books include, Calendar of Souls, Wheel of Fire (Pacific Writers Press, 1991) Recipe of Memory: Five Generations of Mexican Cuisine (The New Press, 1995), Latino Metropolis (University of Minnesota Press, 2000) and City of Industry: Genealogies of Power in Southern California (Rutgers University Press, 2009). His next project, The Poetics of Fire: Metaphors of Chile Eating in The Borderlands (https://www.thepoeticsoffire.com/) will be released in November 2023.
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Latinx Writing Los Angeles situates itself at the intersection of four rubrics: ethnicity (Latinx), place (Los Angeles), genre (nonfiction), and politics (decolonial). Its outlook, one must note, is resolutely anticanonical. Ignacio López-Calvo and Victor Valle have selected “works for the threats they pose to the LA canon and other city literatures” (30). Specifically, Latinx Writing Los Angeles focuses on works that “have either never appeared in print; have not been recognized as literary; have not been recognized as pertaining to Latino/a literature; or have not been recognized as expressive of Latina/o literary forms or urban subjectivity” (42). The two-part introduction offers a well-researched critical survey of twelve existing LA literary anthologies and a clear articulation of the collection’s contrasting rationale.