El derrumbe de la identidad (nombre, cuerpo y territorio) por vientos apocalípticos y fantásticos en Trajiste contigo el viento de Natalia García Freire

Trajiste contigo el viento (2022) by Natalia Garcia Freire presents an apocalyptic setting in the Andes, where the fantastic irruption of the supernatural cracks the characters and the community's identities. I argue that the identity crisis questions the hegemonic system of signification, which implies liberation, but also disappearance. I study three elements of identity: name, body, and space based on the proposal on the identity of Echeverria (2019), understood as a dialectical element granted on the difference between human and animal. This is complemented by Butler's (1997) notion of language, according to which there is an intrinsic violence in the interpellation of the subject. The analysis is framed in fantastic literature, as conceptualized by Roas (2001) and Todorov (2001). The name of the protagonist, Mildred Capa, reveals that the mestizo category has the ability to flee hegemonic significance that exerts violence in interpellation. Bodies lose their limits, which questions the integrity of reality and identity. Sores and spectral figures are expressions of malleable bodies, abject and disrespectful of the limits imposed by religion. The space loses its normality in Cocuan, when the fantastic appears, causing crisis. The town is deconstructed and remains in an original state of connection with the original, from where it reappears. I conclude that the fantastic element puts identity in crisis, revealing its point of origin: the pre-symbolic state. Destabilization allows an identity reconfiguration that leads to a change of order or destruction.