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Title: | Amazonian Ecopoetics: Paes Loureiro’s Shamanic Zoophytography | Authors: | Vieira, Patrícia | Keywords: | Amazonian writing; Ecopoetry; Perspectivism; João de Jesus Paes Loureiro | Issue Date: | 1-Jun-2023 | Publisher: | Routledge | Project: | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/101002359/EU/Animals and Plants in Cultural Productions about the Amazon River Basin | Serial title, monograph or event: | Romance Studies | Volume: | 41 | Issue: | 1 | Abstract: | In this article, I discuss the notion of Amazonian ecopoetry. Given that poetry from the Amazon expresses Amazonian culture and that culture from the region is marked by an indistinction between nature and culture, between human and non-human cultures and societies, I argue that Amazonian poetry is necessarily an ecopoetry. I subsequently reflect upon the concept of Amazonian perspectivism, developed, among others, by anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, as an entry-point into the interpretation of the multiple metamorphoses that characterize Amazonian literature, broadly understood to include folktales, legends, and so on. I draw a comparison between the Indigenous, shamanic goal of translating between non-human and human perspectives, and Amazonian ecopoetics that allows plants and animals to find self-expression within human literature. In the final section of the essay, I analyze the writings of Amazonian-born poet João de Jesus Paes Loureiro (1939-) as an example of Amazonian shamanic ecopoetry. In his texts, legendary and actual Amazonian entities speak in the first person to express the convergences as well as the equivocations that punctuate the myriad interaction between human and non-human beings. | Description: | This is the accepted version of the article. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/108815 | ISSN: | 0263-9904 1745-8153 |
DOI: | 10.1080/02639904.2023.2180942 | Rights: | embargoedAccess |
Appears in Collections: | I&D CES - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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