Abstract
Abstract: In this article, I examine the poetry collection Ipusik’al Matye’lum / Corazón de Selva (2013) by Ch’ol author Juana Peñate Montejo. Focusing my analysis on the representation of the speaker’s body and that of the vegetal rainforest, I propose that the poetry collection mobilizes the physical connections between them –taking various forms, some with subtle erotic tones– as a strategy to deploy an ethic of care and reciprocity against dominant colonial frameworks. In this poetic deployment, the author summons an embodied way of knowing the rainforest, revealing an intimate interconnection between the speaker and the biome that, transcending Western modes of knowing, generates knowledge of space and belonging to said space from the body.
Key Words: Literature; body; poetry; ecology; colonialism
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