Santōka's wandering walk

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Santōka, travel diary, haiku, travel theory

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Julia Jorge
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba / Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

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To go without aim, without destination and on foot. That is the journey of the late Zen monk, walker and haiku poet Taneda Santōka. What singularities propitiates his journey to poetic writing?  This paper answers this question based on theoretical reflection and reading of Santōka's Mendicant Diaries. Considering the travel theories of David Le Breton and Michel Onfray, we revisit the concepts of walking, paths and slowness to analyze a selection of haikus and fragments from the 1930 travel diary. Thus, this paper aims to construct a poetics of wandering as a tool to approach Santōka's work.

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Santōka’s wandering walk. (2022). Heterotopías, 5(9), 1-16. https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/heterotopias/article/view/38130
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Vol. 5 No. 9 (2022): "Aesthetics, politics and nature: languages and ecopoetic experiences" Volume II "Bord(e)ados de vida. Marks of condition of existence in times of extractive violence"
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Julia Jorge, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba / Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

Julia Jorge (1993) has a BA in Literature (UNC) and is currently pursuing her PhD in Modern Literature with a Conicet grant (IDH, UNC) directed by Dr. Gabriela Milone and co-directed by Dr. Matías Chiappe. Her research project deals with topics related to modern and contemporary Japanese poetry and philosophy, especially haiku. She is part of the research project "Perspectivas materialistas: un abordaje critico de escrituras contemporáneas" (SECyT, UNC) and "Materialismos contemporáneos: Perspectivas y abordajes teorico-criticos de la literatura y las artes" (FONCyT). He has compiled the book Pulsiones materiales (Teseo, 2022 -in press-). She has also participated in the collective publications Figuras de la intemperie (UNC, 2018), Figuras de lo común (Sochel, 2021), Imaginar/ hacer. ficciones teóricas para la literatura y las artes contemporáneas (CIFFYH, 2021) and other academic compilations.  She translates haiku and contemporary Japanese poetry and has published the book Head, Mountain, Fire (2019), selections of haiku by Taneda Santōka in conjunction with poet and essayist Keijiro Suga (Eihime, 1954) during his research stay at Meiji University in the fall of 2019. 

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Santōka’s wandering walk. (2022). Heterotopías, 5(9), 1-16. https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/heterotopias/article/view/38130

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