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Waltz Through Wilting Gardens
In a Pacific Northwest rainforest where memory slips strangely through time, Annie and Anil wander through love, pain, premonition, and the haunting shadow of loss. Years later, grief-stricken Annie returns to the peninsula where it…
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My Brother, the Hunter
My Brother, the Hunter is a dark ecological fable about a solitary forest creature and the boy he comes to love as a brother. As men destroy the jungle around them, the boy is slowly…
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The Long Way Home
In “The Long Way Home,” Esmeralda, a Mexican American girl in Tucson, defies her mother’s warnings and takes a forbidden route through the desert on her way to school. There, she encounters Coatlicue, who tells…
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Entre abrazo y captura: el serpenteo del saber amazónico en las secuencias de caapi de El abrazo de la serpiente (2015) de Ciro Guerra
This essay examines how El abrazo de la serpiente stages the transmission of Amazonian knowledge through the film’s two caapi rituals, exploring the tension between relational Indigenous epistemologies and the colonial, scientific, and cinematic forms…
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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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