Sowing words in scorched earth: the reterritorializing poetics of Lo que no veo en visiones by Ana Varela Tafur

Abstract

This study analyzes Ana Varela Tafur's poetry collection Lo que no veo en visiones (2021), from the perspectives of ecocriticism and reterritorialization. It proposes that the work transcends mere testimony by reconstructing Amazonian identities through language, memory, and the female body. The hypothesis posits that Varela not only denounces historical violence but also redefines the Amazon as a political and symbolic territory. Through three axes —the recovery of Indigenous worldviews in language, collective memory linked to ecocide, and the female body as a symbol of resistance— her poetics restore agency to the Amazon and emerge as a decolonial act.