Chamanes y psicodelia andina: (en)cantos comunitarios en un texto de Mónica Ojeda

Abstract

In a context of global disenchantment, ecological crisis, and neoliberal exhaustion, contemporary narratives must rethink ways of inhabiting the world beyond environmental catastrophe. This essay offers a preliminary and speculative approach to Mónica Ojeda’s Chamanes eléctricos en la fiesta del sol(2024), raising questions and associations derived from the reading. The central hypothesis posits that the novel, by evoking Amerindian cosmologies and experimenting with the shamanic and the psychedelic, articulates symbolic resistance to capitalist realism and imagines alternative communities from the Andes, where collective singing reconfigures bonds and possible futures.