Cosmovisión andina y viaje místico en “Chamanes eléctricos en la fiesta del sol” (2024) de Mónica Ojeda. Un acercamiento eco semiótico

Abstract

The present research aimed to analyze and understand the functionalization of the Andean worldview and the mystical journey in the novel “Electric Shamans at the Feast of the Sun” (2024) by Mónica Ojeda, from an eco-semiotic perspective. For this, an analytical-interpretative design was applied, which allowed to decompose the narrative and symbolic elements of the text within the contemporary Ecuadorian sociocultural context. The qualitative approach facilitated a deep interpretation of the cultural signs in relation to the ecological world signs present in the work. The semiotic eco-analysis identifies the systems of symbols related to the Andean cosmovision and that of the images of the language that allow its visibilization. The results show that the novel is organized around elements of the natural world, where the ancestral and the modern actively dialogue. In this cultural setting, the events reported are transformed into natural symbols and shamanic rituals. Thus, “Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun”, from a contemporary, critical, and ecological perspective, demonstrates ways of life, of inhabiting, and of narrating that challenge the boundaries between traditional knowledge and current discourses, reaffirming its value as a symbolically complex and culturally powerful text.