Violence: comoditización corporal y resistencia en la novela de Festus Iyayi

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Ana Victoria Mazza
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0642-6937

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Publicada en 1979, Violence se desarrolla en la ciudad nigeriana de Benín, durante el boom petrolífero de la década de 1970. La narrativa se centra en dos matrimonios que representan ambos extremos del espectro social, cuyos caminos se cruzan mientras sortean diversos obstáculos. La novela de Iyayi constituye una crítica marxista de la violencia ejercida por la pobreza y la desigualdad extrema. Violence muestra cómo ciertos cuerpos humanos se cosifican y explotan de manera sistemática, a la vez que aquellos que no generan ganancias son descartados sin el menor rastro de humanidad.


Desde la perspectiva de la ecocrítica urbana, este artículo examina instancias de cosificación corporal en la novela y, específicamente, de comoditización de energía y materia humanas entendidas como recursos naturales. El estudio propone que Iyayi no solo critica esta comoditización al presentarla como una consecuencia del proyecto capitalista, sino que también la cuestiona mediante actos de cuidado resistente que devuelven a los cuerpos cosificados su calidad de sujeto. Estos actos de cuidado constituyen una forma de refutar la separación artificial de Naturaleza y Sociedad, contenida en el dualismo de cuerpo y mente, que históricamente ha justificado la explotación y expropiación capitalista (neo)colonial. El presente artículo contribuye entonces tanto al campo de los estudios poscoloniales como a los de ecocrítica urbana y literaturas africanas, centrándose en una obra relativamente poco analizada y en problemáticas sumamente relevantes para la Nigeria contemporánea.

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Violence: comoditización corporal y resistencia en la novela de Festus Iyayi. (2024). Astrolabio, 32, 244-269. https://doi.org/10.55441/1668.7515.n32.41997
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Violence: comoditización corporal y resistencia en la novela de Festus Iyayi. (2024). Astrolabio, 32, 244-269. https://doi.org/10.55441/1668.7515.n32.41997

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