Place the Body: Beya (le viste la cara a Dios) as a Genealogy Feminist Resistance in Twenty-First Century Argentina

This article studies the graphic novel Beya (le viste la cara a Dios) (2013), by I & ntilde;aki Echeverr & iacute;a and Gabriela Cabez & oacute;n C & aacute;mara, which narrates the abduction and prostitution of a woman in the so-called "conurbano bonaerense", in Argentina. The kidnapping of the protagonist Beya will be interpreted through the Roman concept of homo sacer, as it was used by Giorgio Agamben in his homonymous book, which, in the ancient world, represented a "vita nuda" ('bare life'). Furthermore, the article analyzes how the graphic novel represents the female body as a space of resistance and political contestation to the patriarchal system.