Landscape, nationalism and cosmopolitanism in contemporary Uruguayan and Ecuadorian poetry: The cases of Eduardo Milan, Ivan Carvajal, Eduardo Espina and Fernando Nieto Cadena

This thesis examines the work of four contemporary poets, two from Uruguay and two from Ecuador, as examples of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of ‘minor literatures’. By focusing on references to landscape (understood broadly) in their poems, this work examines how these poets explore questions of belonging to local, national, regional and international spaces. To this end, the thesis draws upon the different ‘scapes’ that form part of Arjun Appadurai’s ‘critical ethnography’.