| Abstrakt: |
Hubert Matiúwàa is the first author to publish poetry in the Mè'phàà language. His bilingual poetry collection Xtámbaa / Piel de tierra / Landskin (2016) responds to the problems faced by the inhabitants of La Montaña in the Mexican state of Guerrero and narrate how the Mè phàà commu- nity mobilizes in response. The fight of the Mè'phàà people, Matiúwàa contends, is ontological. By systematizing Mè phàà thought as philosophy in his essays, and lyrically deploying its concepts in his poetry, Matiúwàa traces how Mè'phàà epistemological tools combat regional problems and imagine other worlds, ethics, and futures for La Montaña, and in this way, secure its survival and future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
