This collection brings together writings that span the scholarly, literary, reflective, and creative. Encompassing essays, critical studies, personal meditations, guides, narratives, and imaginative works, it engages literature, philosophy, and poetics while also addressing wider questions of language, culture, memory, and spirituality.
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The Virgin Ceiba
Set in sixteenth-century Castile and New Spain, The Virgin Ceiba traces the mystical trajectory of Sor Anacleta de la Luz Carmesí, a Castilian novice whose visions of the Virgin Mary culminate in ecstatic revelations of…
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Sprouting Words
This paper examines how contemporary Maya poets Humberto Ak’abal, Briceida Cuevas Cob, and Ruperta Bautista Vázquez use ritual language to enact ontological continuity and cosmological renewal. Rooted in the metaphysics of the Popol Vuh and…
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El jaguañeñén-hablando jaguareté merodeando por la jaguaretama
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…
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Atziluth, Tzaphiron, Tassili n’Ajjer
“Atziluth, Tzaphiron, Tassili n’Ajjer” is a short story blending speculative fiction, psychological horror, and philosophical mysticism. In 1977, a German archaeologist uncovers the lost journal of Ariadne Mornève, a vanished French linguist who believed in…
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“¡Como tú, río Pachachaca!”
This paper (written in Spanish) analyzes Los ríos profundos through the Andean concept of pacha as a space-time continuum, arguing that Ernesto’s formation unfolds as an ontological becoming through his embodied relationship with the river…
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Pulmones de follaje, suspiro de bruma: respiro con el bosque
Written in Spanish, Pulmones de follaje, suspiro de bruma is a poetic meditation on a solitary walk through the Hoh Rainforest. It explores the blurring of boundaries between self and forest, revealing a deep sense…
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Sounds of the Snow: 15 Albums for the Melodic Melancholy of Winter
This post is a heartfelt ode to winter, celebrating its stark, melancholic beauty through a curated list of fifteen albums that encapsulate the season’s ethereal solitude and emotional depth. These selections range from iconic masterpieces…
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The Pleasure of Vexing and Soothing
This paper delves into the labyrinthine erotics of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, unraveling the interplay of dominance and submission as a site of Gothic transgression and feminist agency. Through a psychoanalytic lens, the paper reimagines…
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