Nativos del futuro: representaciones de lo indígena en la literatura hispanoamericana del nuevo milenio

The aim of this research is to map the singular depiction of the indigenous element in the Latin American fiction of the new millennium. After a period (between 1980 and 2000) in which it appeared almost exclusively in realist and testimonial literature, the indigenous and pre-Columbian theme reappears in contemporary non-mimetic fictions and in the visual art of the subcontinent. Thus, the heterogeneous portrayals of contemporary indigenous subjectivities are analysed. These depictions respond to a series of social changes that have taken place in indigenous reality in the last two decades, whilst also underlines the rupture with the patterns of the twentieth-century literary tradition (particularly that of Mariateguian indigenism), which is profoundly rewritten in these texts. These representations move away from conceptions of authenticity and original purity, to embrace a relational and dynamic concept of indigeneity. Within the various chapters, queer, weird and sci-fi narratives will be explored. In these, the indigenous perspective reveals the blind spots of the Western view of reality, showing its decline, that is, the approaching apocalypse of modernity, and configuring itself as one of the possible existential and adaptive alternatives in a collapsing world. The literary phenomenon is contextualized within the decolonial theory and, above all, the ontological turn in anthropology and social sciences, focusing on the thought of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. In the selected texts, exercises in perspectivism are envisioned to experiment with alternative identity practices, relationalities, and temporalities. Ultimately, indigeneity emerges as one of the possible paths to redefine the human in the era of the Anthropocene.