To the unmade bodies, the remaking

Abstract

The article aims to analyze, from the perspective of comparative studies, how the bodies of black and/or non-black women are dehumanized and, therefore, undone and violated by ethnocentric and universalist sexist and religious practices, in the narratives Undone Body (2022), by Jarrid Araes, and Purple Hibiscus (2011), by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Bodies that, even when depressed and subjugated, suspend the pursuit of a controlled life, thus breaking out against the logic of dispossession; which foreshadows a redo. To carry out the analysis, we rely on critical-analytical and theoretical studies that support the dialogue between the body, violence and devices of power.