Ecopoetry and Decolonization: The Rap of Ana Tijoux

Abstract

In this article, I argue that the rap of French-Chilean musician Ana Tijoux problema- tize ecological and decolonial issues. As an ecopoetic practice, Tijoux’s rap becomes a cultural, aesthetic and politic discourse that refuses colonial modes of representation moreover to extend the notion of marginalized and exploitee subject to non-human