The Posthuman Body and Climate Crisis in Latin American Science Fiction Written by Women

Abstract: Four Latin American women authors—Karen Chacek and Gabriela Damián Miravete of Mexico, and Roberta Spindler and Aline Valek of Brazil—address the current climate crisis in narratives that break down barriers between the human body and the environment. Their stories explore the absorption of elements of the natural world into the human body, suggesting an exchange of both physicality and consciousness. This merging of elements from the plant, insect, and animal realms with the human body is evocative of Donna Haraway's networked body and Bolívar Echeverría's codigofagia , that is, the mixing of diverse codes toward the creation of future societies or civilizational experiments. The texts combine the possibilities of science fiction with the grieving process for a damaged planet, but without essentializing either women or nature. Using Rosi Braidotti's concept of posthuman feminism and Stacy Alaimo's transcorporeality, this article suggests that this approach to climate change—through bodily transformation and transcendent consciousness—captures the resilience of Latin American culture.