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Las plantas en el pensamiento y la literatura latinoamericanos.
Cuadernos de Literatura, Revista de la Universidad Javeriana Vol. 29 (2025).
Co-edited with Carolina Sánchez and Sofía Rosa Rivero.This dossier draws from different networks and collaborations around plants. In 2022, following the conference organized by the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), a group of writers and researchers met virtually from very dissimilar places—such as Cali, New Jersey, Santiago de Chile, and Warwick—to share their research on plant aesthetics from different practices. Fieldwork with indigenous peoples' literatures, participation in reading groups such as "Thinking from Plants," or creative writing initiatives and image composition from plants, were part of the common interests that convened the group. Each day, before presenting and discussing the work, a poem by a Latin American woman author about plants was read. In both the poetic readings and the discussions, the following questions arose: how do we address the silent presence of plants through literary and visual languages? In literature, what does materiality mean—encompassing both paper and inks, as well as the possibilities that texts might be written under the influence of plants? How do plants appear in Latin American literature and how do they burst into other literary traditions? What traditions of thought, methodologies, and concepts allow us to approach plant aesthetics?
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