El ch’ulel como tejido del ser en el cuento “La última muerte” de Nicolás Huet Bautista

Abstract

In the story “The last death,” the ch’ulel (spirit, nagual and conscience) weaves the character’s being in a world full of violence that seems natural to human existence. The ch’ulel as concept and category of analysis, discussed in anthropology and philosophy by Bolom Pale, Sánchez Álvarez and Hernández Díaz, allows us to read the text as a form of decolonization of hegemonic power and knowledge in order to discontinue the subject’s system of self-destruction, in this case by the no revenge. It is evident in the story that Huet Bautista configures, both ethically and aesthetically, a dialogic knowledge between the subject and his world, configured within a heterogeneous literature.