Oralitures are a form of writing that exists alongside oral tradition, following proposals pioneered in Haiti, Senegal, Chile, and Colombia a few decades ago. Through reflections on the works of Amazonian creators such as Candre and Muruy, as well as a dialogue with the poetry of Juan Carlos Galeano, a Colombian poet based in the United States, the conference will introduce us to some of the ethical and aesthetic universes of contemporary poetic writing. By introducing other forms of literary language, Rocha Vivas will also contend that the current climate crisis is not only occurring at the atmospheric and climatic levels, but also in our human-nature relationship. Climate change is also a crisis of language, as will be argued through relationships primarily with water and forests. In short, the speaker will raise questions from an intercultural and artistic-literary perspective, based on reflections on nature writings, myths, Andean-Amazonian texts, and theoretical proposals presented in Reforestar la imaginación (Mexico’s Fondo de Cultura Económica), the most recent book by Miguel Rocha Vivas.
Speaker: Miguel Rocha
May 8, 3 pm
Room 1, CES, Coimbra