Impertinent Eyes. The Construction of the Double-Gaze in El trabajo de los ojos by Mercedes Halfon (2017) and El nervio óptico (2014) by María Gainza

Authors

  • Carlos Ayram Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile / ANID

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/452f.2022.27.3

Keywords:

eyes, double gaze, visual disability, Gainza, Halfon

Abstract

This article analyzes the Argentine novels

El Trabajo de Los Ojos

by Mercedes Halfon and

El nervio óptico

by María Gainza to investigate the symbolic and material uses of the protagonists’ eyes. I hypothesize that in both works, the narrators produce a singular register —crossed by class and gender markers— of their particular ocular conditions that serves, on the one hand, to fabricate a personal history of art and, on the other, to highlight the absence of the female strabismic look. Both novels show the construction of a double gaze in which artistic objects and archives are described, but which, at the same time, announces a peculiar scopic regime traversed, in this case, by strabismus and diplopia.

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Published

2022-07-30

How to Cite

Ayram, C. (2022). Impertinent Eyes. The Construction of the Double-Gaze in El trabajo de los ojos by Mercedes Halfon (2017) and El nervio óptico (2014) by María Gainza. 452ºF. Revista De Teoría De La Literatura Y Literatura Comparada, (27), 42–61. https://doi.org/10.1344/452f.2022.27.3

Issue

No. 27 (2022): Body, Vision, and Textuality: Contemporary Poetics and the Politics of Looking

Section

Monograph

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