The strabismic writing. Body, vision and fragmentation in El trabajo de los ojos (2017) by Mercedes Halfon
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https://doi.org/10.24197/sxxi.19.2021.109-134Keywords:
visual impairment; fragmentation; body-corpus; ophthalmocentrism; Mercedes Halfon.Abstract
This paper aims to analyze the textualization of strabismus in El trabajo de los ojos (2017) by Mercedes Halfon (Buenos Aires, 1980). In this direction, we interpret, first, the visual disability of the protagonist as an aesthetic device that operates in the construction of a hybrid and fragmentary narrative. And, secondly, we argue how the author constructs a sort of ophthalmological anarchive that accounts for the processes of construction of a "deviant" politics of the female gaze that allows her to confront the ocularcentric and ophthalmocentric discourses sponsored by patriarchy and capacitism.
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