Bodies that resist: Gabriela Cabezón Cámara's Le viste la cara a Dios, and María Fernanda Ampuero’s “Biografía”

Abstract

In both tales, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s Le viste la cara a Dios and María Fernanda Ampuero’s “Biografía”, the main characters develop the conditions in order to survive precariousness: in the first case, the woman is a victim of human trafficking; in the second case, the character is an immigrant who, within the refugees and solicitors of political asylum, is an example of the “necropolitical subject”, according to Achille Mbembe. The body of these women is the first territory where different expressions of violence are experienced. The second territory is the space: the brothel, the site of the kidnapping, closed places that drives both characters to extremes situations. Nevertheless, the female characters elaborate strategies as part of the process of becoming, this allows them to resist the patriarchal and capitalist violence. In pursuit of the narrative’s analysis, Rossi Braidotti’s posthumanist proposal over nomad subjectivity is taken, as well it contributes to the dialogue between this works that recreates actual situations of violence. It is important to notice that the process of becoming in this narratives implies a fictional alternative of resistance against contemporary contexts.