Ava Linda Feliz-Sutter

Written in Spanish, this paper examines João Guimarães Rosa’s “Mi tío el jaguareté” as a cosmopolitical narrative of ontological metamorphosis. It explores how solitude, grief, and Indigenous heritage drive the narrator’s becoming-jaguar through a hybrid language (jaguañeñén), dissolving human boundaries and entering a pluriversal forest realm—jaguaretama—where language, identity, and being are fluid, relational, and more-than-human.