Border gnoseologyAkwaeke Emezi and the decolonial other-than-human

  1. López Rodríguez, Marta Sofía
Revista:
Ecozon@ [Ecozona]: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment

ISSN: 2171-9594

Año de publicación: 2022

Título del ejemplar: The postcolonial nonhuman

Volumen: 13

Número: 2

Páginas: 77-91

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.37536/ECOZONA.2022.13.2.4669 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_opene_Buah editor

Otras publicaciones en: Ecozon@ [Ecozona]: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment

Resumen

Cuando se habla de lo no humano postcolonial, la presuposición subyacente es que lo más-que-humano se refiere a lo que podríamos llamar, en términos generales, “el mundo natural,” como contrapuesto a lo humano-como-Hombre, pero todavía generalmente entendido desde la perspectiva del secularismo occidental. No obstante, en términos de las onto-epistemologías africanas, lo no humano puede también referirse al mundo espiritual, o a los diversos ensamblajes entre lo “natural,” lo humano y lo sagrado. "Freshwater" y "Dear Senthuran. A Black Spirit Memoir", de Akwake Emezi, abren el espacio para una “gnoseología fronteriza” en la que los discursos angloamericanos contemporáneos sobre la transexualidad se entrecruzan con ontologías y cosmologías africanas, en particular con la conocida figura del "ogbanje" y con la pitón sagrada, como avatar de Ala, la diosa de la tierra igbo, para producir una subjetividad encarnada radicalmente subversiva. Las ideas de movimiento, transición, tranimalidad y cruce (transatlántico) conspiran para desmantelar nociones humanistas eurocéntricas del yo y la identidad. Leer a Emezi en sus propios términos implica también revisitar nociones alternativas de la temporalidad más allá del tiempo secular moderno y cisheteronormativo, y al mismo tiempo entender que lo sagrado y lo espiritual son sin duda elementos esenciales en la visión del mundo y en los procesos de subjetivación de millones de personas en todo el planeta.

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