LIQUID SUBSTANCE AND PLANT LIFE: THE AMAZONIAN ECOPOETICS OF JAVIER DÁVILA DURAND

Favaron P. · Metafora (2025) · DOI: 10.36286/mrlad.v3i6.226

Resumen

This article proposes an ecopoetic approach to the work of Javier Dávila, and in particular to some poems from the book La jungla de oro. He was an emblematic poet of the Peruvian Amazon. Dávila’s poetry is approached from his insertion (in the second half of the 20th century) in an emerging field of regional literature, which sought to abandon exoticist gazes in order to speak from its own cultural heterogeneity. The hermeneutics carried out will highlight the confluence of Christian aspects and Amerindian rationalities in the ecological proposal of his poetics. Dávila's work manifests an ecological celebration based on the fertile processes of transculturation experienced in the Amazon region of Peru.

Instituciones: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú