The matter that shapes the world: a reading proposal of Chamanes eléctricos en la fiesta del sol by Mónica Ojeda

Abstract

The recognition of a world in the midst of social and environmental collapse has brought renewed attention to aspects of existence that seemed forgotten. In this effort to pay attention, a part of contemporary Latin American literature has attempted to transform old discourses and to narrate in different ways the ever-existing dependence between the human and the non-human. Therefore, this paper analyzes the novel Chamanes eléctricos en la fiesta del sol (2024) by the writer Mónica Ojeda, where the author presents the projection of a collapsing world. In this scenario, based on the categories of time and territory, we will see how the narrative foregrounds the human condition of an interconnected and interdependent existence and how the recognition of this condition becomes a clue to learn to inhabit the world amid the ecosocial crisis.