Indigenous poiesis : the semiotics of circulation in Villegas' Maya Poetry

Pigott, Charles; Quetchenbach, Bernard and Fiedorczuk, Julia and Newell, Mary and Okoth, Christine, eds. (2022) Indigenous poiesis : the semiotics of circulation in Villegas' Maya Poetry. In: The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics. Taylor and Francis (Routledge), London. (In Press)

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Abstract

This chapter textually analyses the poem "Kukuláankil" / "Pulso" [Pulsation], composed bilingually in Yucatec Maya and Spanish by Mexican poet Wildernain Villegas Carrillo, and published in 2009. I will argue that the poem evinces a Maya philosophy whereby poetics emerges from a larger category of poiesis, or creative potential, as a fundamental property of nature. Through intercultural dialogue between the Maya poem and "Western" theoretical perspectives, I seek to demonstrate how "Kukuláankil" presents poetry as emergent from wider semiotic cycles that encompass all that exists. This dialogue is itself an instance of the semiotic circulation depicted in the poem, in such a way that both the poem and the chapter depart from a basis of resonance and empathy rather than detached objectivity.

ORCID iDs

Pigott, Charles ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2512-2576; Quetchenbach, Bernard, Fiedorczuk, Julia, Newell, Mary and Okoth, Christine
  • Item type:Book Section
    ID code:84122
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    30 June 2022
    Published
    30 June 2022
    Accepted
    1 June 2022
    Submitted
    Keywords:indigenous, poiesis, semiotics, Maya poetry, Maya literature, Wildernain Villegas Carrillo, Romance languages, Literature and Literary Theory, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities, SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities, SDG 15 - Life on Land
    Subjects:Language and Literature > Romance languages
    Department:Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Humanities > Spanish
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:13 Feb 2023 17:20
    Last modified:01 Nov 2023 13:08
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/84122
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