Rafue literario: Notas sobre la poesía amazónica colombiana contemporánea

The essay proposes a panoramic exploration of the contemporary poetic production of indigenous authors from the Colombian Amazon, based on a reading of some poems by Anastasia Candre Yamacuri, Yenny Muruy Andoque/Yɨche, Hugo Jamioy Juagibioy, Francelina Muchavisoy and Ángela Mavisoy. The first part of the text presents some exegetical categories useful for approaching a theory of Amazonian text, with an emphasis on the Uitoto notion of rafue. In the second section, based on the Amazonian plant theory (Duchesne, 2019), the poetic motifs of the canasto and yagé are analyzed, with a focus on the features of the author’s relational dimension and the symbolic activation of an Amazonian textual and poetic material. The last section of the essay proposes an analysis of the forms of thematization of the Colombian armed conflict in Amazonian poetry, in dialogue with reflections on the duality place-memory and territory-history in the kamëntsá cosmovision (Mavisoy Muchavisoy, 2024).