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The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is glad to present Valeria Meiller<\/strong> (Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Texas at San Antonio) for a workshop on<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ECOPOETRY\/ECOPOETRY<\/s>: THE AFFORDANCES AND PITFALLS OF ECOLOGICALLY ENGAGED POETIC PRAXIS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
This workshop presents three theoretical entryways to the concept of ecopoetry\u2014understood broadly as ecologically engaged poetic praxis\u2014: Anglophone ecocriticism, Latin American environmental aesthetics, and Indigenous literary production. Following a brief introduction about the affordances and potential pitfalls of \u201cecopoetics\u201d within these three literary traditions, workshop participants will go on to read and analyze trilingual poems by Mario Castell (Guaran\u00ed\/Spanish\/English) and Mart\u00edn Tonalmeyolt (Nahualt\/Spanish\/English). We will discuss how these poems\u2014originally written bilingually by their authors in Guaran\u00ed\/Spanish and Nahuatl\/Spanish; and later translated into English\u2014conform and\/or challenge notions of ecopoetry as understood in different literary traditions of the hemispheric Americas. Combining close reading and theoretical reflection, this workshop explores how plurilingual literatures challenge traditional modes of readership and Western worldviews of what constitutes literature, language, and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
*This project\u2019s materials and reflections draw from the facilitator\u2019s project: www.rugeelbosque.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Please, reach out to Professor Gisela Heffes to sign up: gisela.heffes@jh.edu<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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