ECOPOETICS OF MUNTURO

BIOREGIONAL, AESTHETIC, AND ECOCRITICAL MOVEMENTS IN THE BODY-LAND RELATIONSHIP IN MUNTURO, BY MÔ MOREIRA

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20873.24.4030

Keywords:

Ecopoetics, Munturo, Ecocriticism, Biorregionalism

Abstract

When body and land intertwine in the realm of language, another margin emerges, a poetic interstice that tensions the threads of aesthetic production, dissolving the boundaries of the opposition between man and nature in favor of constructing an open relationship between humanity and nature. It is in the pursuit of this in-between space, within its tensions and pathways, that this article is constituted, with the aim of analyzing the novel "Munturo" (2022) by the baiana professor and writer Mô Moreira, in order to discuss the biorregional, aesthetic, and ecocritical movements arising from the body-land relationship in the Bahian semi-arid region, constructed by the narrator through the interweaving of characters in an intriguing narrative mosaic. To achieve this, the review of literature is employed as a methodology, engaging in a dialogue with authors such as Kirkpatrick Sale (2020), Xavier Garnier (2022), Evando Nascimento (2021), Antônio Bispo dos Santos (Nego Bispo) (2023), Malcon Ferdinand (2022), among others, who discuss biorregionalism, literature, and their aesthetic, ecocritical, and ecopoetic mobilizations. In the analyzed novel, the tensions of capitalism and neoliberalism become perceptible in the Baiano and Brazilian semi-arid territories, subjecting humans and non-humans, communities, and ecologies to deterritorializations under the violent premises of "development" and "progress." Mô Moreira inscribes in literary language, and through it, what we refer to as the ecopoetics of munturo, a heap of bodies that rise against colonial violence, simultaneously traversed by the poetics of the land, so to speak, of life.

Author Biography

Luciano Santos Xavier, Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA)

Doutorando em Literatura e Cultura pela Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Mestre em Literatura e Cultura também pela UFBA, graduado em Letras, Língua Portuguesa e Literaturas pela Universidade do Estado da Bahia (UNEB). Membro dos Grupos de Pesquisa: LEFOR (UNEB), PEPLP (UFBA), NEAI (UFBA) e Arribar o Céu (UNEB). Integra, como pesquisador, o Projeto de Pesquisa Poéticas Orais e Pensamento Decolonial: perspectivas teóricas e metodológicas (LANMO/UNAM/México). Possui experiência acadêmica na área de Letras, no campo das teorias e crítica da literatura e da cultura, desenvolvendo pesquisas em torno das poéticas da oralidade, performances e (est)éticas afro-indígenas, literatura negra, arte-educação, ensino de literatura, formação leitora, territorialidades e estéticas sertanejas.

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Published

2024-12-22

How to Cite

Santos Xavier, L. (2024). ECOPOETICS OF MUNTURO: BIOREGIONAL, AESTHETIC, AND ECOCRITICAL MOVEMENTS IN THE BODY-LAND RELATIONSHIP IN MUNTURO, BY MÔ MOREIRA. Porto Das Letras, 10(3), 592–614. https://doi.org/10.20873.24.4030