Reflections

My Brother, the Hunter

Ecological Fiction · Fiction · Literature · Short Fiction

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 drawn into their world, and the tenderness that once bound the two gives way to estrangement, violence, and an irreversible…
The Long Way Home

Fiction · Literature · Short Fiction

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 her the story of Aztlán, Tenochtitlan, and the eagle and serpent. As danger closes in, Esmeralda begins to understand both…
Entre abrazo y captura: el serpenteo del saber amazónico en las secuencias de caapi de El abrazo de la serpiente (2015) de Ciro Guerra

Academic · Cinematic Analysis · Comparative Literature · Film · Film & Philosophy · Indigenous Philosophies & Cosmovisions · Latin American Studies

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 of mediation that seek to preserve yet risk appropriating them.