{"product_id":"9780930829568","title":"Custody of the Eyes","description":"\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCustody of the Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e is Helen Lane and Ronald Christ’s brilliant translation of Diamela Eltit’s \u003ci\u003eLos vigilantes\u003c\/i\u003e (1994). In the novel, Eltit dramatizes voice, gender, and power in the relationship among mother, son, and father. As translators, Lane and Christ capture the intensity of expression that evokes, calls upon, even preys upon the figure of the mother as the lightning rod of power and repression in an oppressive society. \u003ci\u003eCustody of the Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e explores the climate of vigilance related not only to gender and familial relations but also to the social fabric torn by the Chilean experience of Pinochet’s dictatorship. Earlier translations of Eltit’s novels, such as \u003ci\u003eFourth World\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSacred Cow\u003c\/i\u003e, and Ronald Christ’s \u003ci\u003eE. Luminata\u003c\/i\u003e, introduced English-language readers to Eltit’s radically experimental prose. \u003ci\u003eCustody of the Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e brings into English the challenging and questioning linguistic performance that sustains Eltit’s approach to the novelistic genre.”—Danny J. Anderson, editor, \u003ci\u003ePan-American Literature in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e for the University of Texas Press\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiamela Eltit has “forged what is considered as one of the most risk-taking and consistent narrative projects to emerge in Chile in the last decades.”—Mary Green, University of Manchester\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean Franco describes the goals of Eltit’s fiction: “to act against the authoritarian state, to take literature symbolically into the most marginal of spaces, to work against the easy readability of the commercial text, to foreground the woman’s body as a site of contention, to increase or exaggerate the marginality of art, and juxtapose literature’s marginality to that of prostitutes, vagabonds, and the homeless.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lumen Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008564412656,"sku":"9780930829568","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780930829568_p0.jpg?v=1763868187","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780930829568","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}