Counter/Insurgent Guerrilla Ecopoetics

Daniel Eltringham

doi:10.30827/tn.v8i1.29769

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Daniel Eltringham Bath Spa University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30827/tn.v8i1.29769

Palabras clave:

poesía guerrillera, ecopoesía, contrainsurgencia, nuevos materialismos, traducción

Resumen

Basándonos en ejemplos de la poesía guerrillera latinoamericana de Mario Payeras, Javier Heraud y Rita Valdivia traducidos en pequeñas editoriales anglófonas, este artículo explora las fisuras entre los entornos materiales de la lucha y las preocupaciones teóricas de una ecopoética transcultural. El artículo propone que la “ecopoética guerrillera” resultante refleja tanto las redes de solidaridad internacional en las que se publicaron estos poemas como la retórica de la contrainsurgencia, a través de la figura ecológica compartida de la relacionalidad entrelazada. En el poema “Ecología” de Ernesto Cardenal, la lucha política se imbrica con una ecología relacional más allá de lo humano. Sin embargo, esta afirmación, común a otras líricas guerrilleras, se complica por la traducción ambivalente entre lenguaje y materia mediante metáforas insurgentes que representan la estrategia guerrillera en términos de ciclos y procesos naturales, como el enjambre y la polinización. A su vez, estas figuras son susceptibles de ser capturadas por el discurso contrainsurgente, que naturaliza la lucha agraria, y por la teoría ambiental, que emplea el lenguaje de enjambres y ensamblajes. Este argumento sobre la naturalización de la reproducción social a través del lenguaje figurativo, que abarca la practicidad militante del suministro, infraestructura y subsistencia (y su reverso, el sabotaje y la contrainsurgencia), conduce a tensiones entre la teoría del Nuevo Materialismo y el materialismo histórico, negociadas a través de lo que el intelectual militante guatemalteco Mario Payeras denomina la “dialéctica ambiental”.

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