Redes biopolíticas para la desarticulación del biopoder esclavista en La familia del Comendador de Juana Paula Manso (1860)

From a feminist literary studies perspective, in dialogue with the notions of biopolitics and biopower proposed by Michel Foucault (and later expanded by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri) this work presents a reading of La familia del Comendador (1860), by Juana Paula Manso, as a means to problematize the critical tradition regarding Latin American modernity. By shedding light on the ideological tensions that emerge between biopowers (forms of control) and biopolitics (forms of resistance) through the passages walked by the characters, this text reveals how Manso envisioned an ideal of a liberal modernity-capitalism (in terms of gender, race, and economy) for the region.