The Blurred Vision: Defocused Poetics and Oblique Views in the Contemporary Hispanic Narrative

Abstract

The sense of sight has been established as the preferred cognitive model in our culture; however, ¿what happens when the visual order seems to be fallible?, ¿what implications and meanings acquires the presence of some eye diseases that generate defective views in the most recent narrative? This paper addresses, from the perspective of gender and cultural studies, the work of several Latin American female writers who have articulated in their narrative different optical disorders as myopia, strabismus or diplopia. From this approach, it is pretended to demonstrate that the repeated presence of eye diseases has configured a literary motive which is directly related to the emergence of a new aesthetic positioning. The deficient visions are discovered, nowadays, as the manifestation of a different look that was required from the female discourse to be against the ocularcentric and male regime.