Knowledge Production and Planetarity in the Latin American Essay: An ecocritical reading of "Nuestra América" by José Martí

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https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2025.16.2.5265

Mots-clés :

ecocriticism, planetarity, knowledge production, Latin American essay, José Martí

Résumé

The quest for a genuinely Latin American identity was central to the continent’s independence movements and led to one of the most striking entanglements of identitarian discourses and nature narratives in the history of the Americas, namely the seminal essay Nuestra América by José Martí. This article argues that Nuestra América should be understood as a vital example of anticolonial and ecocritical knowledge production from the South, and examines how the essay conceptualises nature as a narrative that contests the anthropocentric, colonial exploitation of the environment and fosters a planetary vision of the human.

 

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Biographie de l'auteur-e

Madalina Stefan, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Madalina Stefan holds a PhD in Romance Philology and Cultural Studies from the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, a Master's degree in InterAmerican Studies and a Bachelor's degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies from Bielefeld University. She was granted a predoctoral junior fellowship at the Centre of Interdisciplinary Research and two postdoctoral researcher scholarships (Women in Research, WWU & Maria Sibylla Merian International Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, São Paulo). Currently she is a visiting reseacher at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and holds a scholarship of the Heinrich Hertz Foundation.  In the past years she participated in the organisation and lectureship of several international summer schools and conferences, and has taught at different Universities, such as Pompeu Fabra (Spain), Bielefeld (Germany), Guadalajara (Mexico), Eberhard Karls University Tübingen (Germany) and UOC (Spain). Her research interests are literary and cinematographic Ecocriticism, Postcolonial & Global South Studies, Space Theory, Migration Studies & Accented Cinema, Latin American Dictatorships in Film and Literature.

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2025-10-30

Numéro

Vol. 16 No. 2 (2025): Vegetal Humanities in the Amazon

Rubrique

Articles: General Section

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