Becoming-Earth from Estación Camarón in "Autobiografía del algodón", by Cristina

Abstract

This article analyzes the novel Autobiografía del algodón (2020) by the writer Cristina Rivera Garza; specifically, two chapters that de-sediment the collective history of the writer from Estación Camarón. We visualize the chapters through the posthuman knowledge that Rosi Braidotti has called “becoming-earth,” which offers possibilities of human decentering to focus on a geologic dimension of subjectivation. Likewise, this work gives an account of the disappropriative writing strategies that Rivera Garza proposes from the natural-cultural continuity of the Antrhopocene. Therefore, it tries to appreciate the ontological complexity of the relationships raised in the novel by understanding it as an assemblage of subjectivities.