Fiebre de carnaval and “traces”: a poetics of dwelling on the coast
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https://doi.org/10.18537/puc.36.01.03Keywords:
ecuadorian coast, carnival, body-territory, childhoodAbstract
This paper explores the creation of a poetics of living through the analysis of Ortiz Ruano’s narrative language in Carnival Fever and “Indicios,” texts that depict Esmeraldas in the 1990s—a coastal territory historically framed as an “extractive zone.” How does childhood serve as a lens for reconfiguring place, subjectivity, and belonging in this context? “To speak is to make an insular territory,” Ortiz Ruano asserts, a notion that invites an exploration of insularity as a mode of inhabiting and narrating space. This study examines how a sound geography emerges—an affective and liquid ecosystem where tragedy, violence, and festivity intertwine. Through this lens, childhood is positioned as a site of resistance, capable of unsettling dominant visual and narrative frames. Finally, the text proposes the formation of a body-territory, anchored in the racialized female body, as a spatial and poetic configuration of place.
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