Estudios de Teoría Literaria (Nov 2024)
Between what is woven and what flees: ways of (re)inventing proximities in El territorio del viaje and Llekümün by Daniela Catrileo
Abstract
The following work explores two collaboratively crafted poetic productions by Daniela Catrileo, "El territorio del viaje" (2017) and "Llekümün" (2020). It delves into the ways in which writing and performance weave proximities that challenge the biopolitical cartographies of the present and dominant narratives and imaginaries. Faced with the advance of neo-extractivist development models, neoliberal policies, and securitarian regimes that, articulated with discourses of conservative restoration - racist, colonial, and patriarchal - impose new enclosures on land and communities, poetic creation turns towards the streets, the road, the river: towards bodies and their voices. It moves and circulates among those present and absent, exploring alternative ways of cultivating contact. It throws itself into the journey, diaspora, and (re)imagines them through friction with other lives. In the interrogation planted by these displacements, we wonder: through what poetic operations are these proximities mounted and activated for escape? And what forms of get-together do they give rise to? From there, how do these proximities affect the scriptural and performative practice? Simultaneously, what interventions does poetic language make on the discursive and material configurations of our world?
