La carne que habla: filosofía y poesía mè’phàà en la obra de Hubert Matiúwàa

Abstract

Hubert Matiúwàa is the first author to publish poetry written in Mè’phàà. His bilingual collections Xtámbaa / Earthen Skin (2016) and Tsína rí nayaxa’ / The Scar that Looks at You (2018) respond to the knot of problems faced by the inhabitants of La Montaña in the Mexican state of Guerrero, and narrate how the Mè’phàà community processes this pain and mobilizes in response. The fight of the Mè’phàà people, Matiúwàa contends, is ontological. By systematizing Mè’phàà cultural practices as philosophy in his essays and poetic work, Matiúwàa traces how these epistemological tools can be deployed to combat regional problems and imagine other worlds, ethics, and futures for La Montaña, and in this way, secure its survival and future.