Archipelagic Futures
The Speculative and Decolonial Transecopoetics of Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12647894 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ysabel Muñoz-Martínez (0000-0002-3195-5876, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 55-75 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-14 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | eTropic electronic journal of studies in the tropics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1448-2940 • E-ISSN: 1448-2940 |
| Publisher | James Cook University (PUBLISHER • AU) |
| DOI | 10.25120/etropic.24.1.2025.4157 |
| OpenAlex | W4408478566 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 30 |
Puerto Rico’s experience of Hurricane Maria became an inflection point for the island’s inhabitants, diaspora, literary and artistic communities, uncovering and stressing the overlapping crises that continue ailing the country. This paper discusses how political ecology and gender non-normativity are fundamental axes to approach Puerto Rican poet Roque Raquel Salas Rivera’s decolonial proposal of futurity in the face of overlapping disasters. It directly engages with poems from the collection antes que isla es volcán/ before island is volcano (2022), explaining the operations through which his poetry speculates and performs gender, social, political, and environmental justice. Utilizing frameworks from transecology and Caribbean chronotropics, I identify three main operations contributing to forging decolonial futures: the development of affective eco-literacies to approach the future, breakage of normative time, and geological trans-speciation as a key rhetorical figure. These poetic engage-ments allow Salas Rivera to reimagine a nation outside the plantation logic that attempts to tie the Caribbean to endless regimes of extraction. Instead, the poet designs a chronotropics pointing towards novel forms of futuring in the tropics and beyond
Archipelagic state · Art · Art history · Economics · Financial economics · Futures contract · Political science · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Computer Science · Law
Island Bodies
Mortality in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria
Plantation Futures
Island Movements
Ruins of Empire
The Gifts of the Hurricane
Subjection and Resistance
Love that Burns Hot Enough to Last
Modernity's Antillean ecologies
Making Livable Worlds
Policing Life and Death
Poetics of relation
The Affect Theory Reader
Tropical Imaginaries and Climate Crisis
Caliban revisitado
Postdisaster Futures
More Lessons from a Starfish
Indigenous science (fiction) for the Anthropocene
Errors in the Exchange
The Future is Eco-Trans
Imperial Leather
| Highly cited | No |
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