The Earth as a Body: The “Economy of Care” Against the “Commodity People” Ashes

Abstract

The present work proposes thinking on the political agency of indigenous literature in the face of a war between different conceptions of world, land, being, people, humanity, a war between an “economy of care” (which presupposes that to exist is to always co-exist with people of different kinds of species and materials) and the solipsism of “commodity people”. The aim is to understand how indigenous resistance and the struggle for land are immanent to indigenous people’s poetics. Literature is seen as a way to stretch the limits of our ontology, to put our ethnocentrism and anthropocentrism into question, to open our world (so closed in on itself) to other worlds.

Keywords: Indigenous Literature; Resistance; Land; Anthropocene.