WETLAND POETICS
“Wetland Poetics: Regional Situatedness as Planetary Practice.” With Whitney DeVos. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature and the Environment 31.3 (2024): 605-629.
ISLE – 2024
COLFA Nomine for High Impact Paper Award at UTSA – 2024
Through the notion of “wetland poetics,” we analyze contemporary poetry emerging from Argentine wetlands environments as a regionally-situated and planetary practice. We argue the work of Valeria Mussio and Natalia Garay in Spanish, and Mario Castells in Guaraní and Spanish, maps spaces of preservation from wetlands ecosystems receding due to state neglect and corporate extractivism. Situating these poetics within the context of the “revolution of the capybaras,” our paper inquires into the political functions of literary discourse amidst public protests demanding a Wetlands Protection Law that has repeatedly lost parliamentary status because of lobbyists affiliated with mining and corporate agribusiness.
ISLE – 2024
COLFA Nomine for High Impact Paper Award at UTSA – 2024
Through the notion of “wetland poetics,” we analyze contemporary poetry emerging from Argentine wetlands environments as a regionally-situated and planetary practice. We argue the work of Valeria Mussio and Natalia Garay in Spanish, and Mario Castells in Guaraní and Spanish, maps spaces of preservation from wetlands ecosystems receding due to state neglect and corporate extractivism. Situating these poetics within the context of the “revolution of the capybaras,” our paper inquires into the political functions of literary discourse amidst public protests demanding a Wetlands Protection Law that has repeatedly lost parliamentary status because of lobbyists affiliated with mining and corporate agribusiness.
© 2024 Valeria Meiller