Daniela Catrileo: Botanical Resistance Art

Description

Eulalia Books, paperback

Translated by Edith Adams

Publication Date: December 4, 2024

Publisher Marketing: Winner of the 2019 Santiago Municipal Literature Prize, Daniela Catrileo’s first poetry collection written in both Spanish and Mapudungun is a masterwork of contemporary indigenous literature. Translated by Edith Adams, Guerrilla Blooms places the reader before the story of a woman, who along with her partner, participates in an ancestral war led by weichafe women like themselves. Love and warfare intertwine, creating a reality that interweaves territories, languages, and chronologies, collapsing time and space to draw an enmeshed lineage from the arrival of the conquistadors to ongoing state violence against the Mapuche people.

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