<b>Moniya amena: El origen del río Amazonas</b> // Moniya amena: The Origin of the Amazon River

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  • Juan Carlos Galeano

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2017.8.1.1375

Abstract

Resumen

      Narrativas orales sobre un árbol gigantesco de la abundancia son comunes en las cosmovisiones indígenas por casi toda la cuenca amazónica. La historia revela que las transformaciones vida, muerte y el renacer garantizan la circulación de la energía vital capaz de adoptar todas las formas del paisaje. En la versión anterior, además de asociar al árbol con el origen del río, la preocupación ecológica de los pobladores parece coincidir con el llamado urgente en nuestra época a la creación una nueva imaginación ambiental que borre las dicotomías entre lo humano y no humano.


Abstract

      Oral narratives about a gigantic tree of abundance are common in the many indigenous cosmovisions throughout almost the entire Amazonian basin. The story reveals that transformations of life, death, and re-birth guarantee the circulation of vital energy capable of adopting all forms of the landscape. In this tale, in addition to associating the tree with the origin of the river, the ecological concern of the inhabitants seems to coincide with the urgent outcry of our era toward the creation of a new environmental imagination that erases the dichotomies between human and non-human life. 

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Juan Carlos Galeano

Juan Carlos Galeano es poeta, traductor y ensayista nacido en la región amazónica de Colombia. Ha publicado varios libros de poesía y ha traducido poetas norteamericanos al español. Su trabajo de campo sobre narrativas simbólicas de ribereños y bosquesinos por más de una década en la cuenca amazónica resultó en la producción de su colección de cuentos amazónicos (Folktales of the Amazon, ABC-CLIO, 2008) y el documental The Trees Have a Mother  (Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 2008). Su poesía inspirada en las cosmologías amazónicas y en el mundo moderno (Amazonia 2003, 2011, Yakumama y otros Seres Míticos, 2014) ha sido antologada y publicada en revistas internacionales como Casa de las Américas (Cuba), The Atlantic Monthly y Ploughshares (EE.UU.). Vive en Tallahassee, Florida, donde enseña poesía latinoamericana y Culturas de la Amazonía en la Universidad del Estado de la Florida State University. Actualmente es director del programa universitario de Servicio y Aprendizaje Journey into Amazonia en la selva amazónica peruana.

 

 

Juan Carlos Galeano is a poet, translator, and essayist born in the Amazon region of Colombia. He has published several books of poetry, and has translated North American poets into Spanish. Over a decade of fieldwork on symbolic narratives of riverine and forest people in the Amazon basin resulted in his production of a comprehensive collection of storytelling  (Folktales of the Amazon, ABC-CLIO, 2008) the documentary film The Trees Have a Mother (Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 2008). His poetry inspired by Amazonian cosmologies and the modern world (Amazonia 2003, 2011, and Yakumama and other Mythical Beings, 2014), has been anthologized and published in international journals such Casa de las Américas (Cuba), The Atlantic Monthly and Ploughshares (U.S.).  He lives in Tallahassee, Florida, where he teaches Latin American poetry and Amazonian Cultures at Florida State University. He is currently the director of the FSU Service/Learning Program: Journey into Amazonia in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest.

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Pubblicato

2017-04-27

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V. 8 N. 1 (2017): South Atlantic Ecocriticism

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Creative Writing and Arts

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