JUGOS DAÑADOS DEL SAN PEDRO EN LA VIOLENCIA DEL TIEMPO DE MIGUEL GUTIÉRREZ
Perífrasis Revista de Literatura Teoría y Crítica August 29, 2022 Peer reviewed DOI: 10.25025/perifrasis202213.27.04 via OpenAlex
Summary
The San Pedro cactus in this novel illustrates the shaman's therapeutic practices and highlights how its consumption leads to ecstasy, which is framed as both a chemical and aesthetic process. This experience has somatic-political implications and fosters experimental literary approaches. The narrative emphasizes the visions achieved through trance states and their historical storytelling, contributing to a shamanic theorization of montage techniques.
Study at a glance
| Key finding | The San Pedro cactus is portrayed as central to shamanic practices that intertwine therapeutic, aesthetic, and political dimensions in narrative form. |
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Abstract
In this novel the presence of the San Pedro cactus shows not only the shaman’s therapeutic operations but also the way in which the ecstasy produced by its consumption is defined as a chemical and aesthetic procedure, with somatic-political repercussions and experimental aspirations from the point of view of its literary concreteness. In this way, the experimentation of the visions that is reached through the trance state and the ways of narrating history are underlined, thus giving rise to a shamanic theorization of the montage method.