{"product_id":"custody-of-the-eyes-9783956796067","title":"Custody of the Eyes","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn unnamed woman--a mother--struggles to survive in the face of state repression, neighborhood surveillance, extreme weather, and familial control.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlienation and dire frustration mount as an unnamed woman--a mother--struggles to survive in the face of state repression, neighborhood surveillance, extreme weather, and familial control. Told through one side of an epistolary exchange, \u003ci\u003eCustody of the Eyes \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eLos Vigilantes\u003c\/i\u003e) presents letters bookended by dense ramblings by the mother's son, who struggles to speak and write and spends most of his days in lockdown rearranging his \"vessels,\" hysterically laughing, drooling, writhing, and withdrawing--a state that will ultimately consume his mother as well. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is a story that explores how power is enacted on and through the body--the physical, the social, and the political. \u003ci\u003eCustody of the Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e reconfirms the essential, constitutive nature of language and expression in power and freedom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiamela Eltit is a Chilean writer and artist. She began producing works during the Pinochet dictatorship, staging actions as part of the artist collective CADA and publishing her first novels, \u003ci\u003eLumpérica\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEl Cuarto Mundo\u003c\/i\u003e. She has received many literary prizes, including Chile's National Prize for Literature in 2018. She is a Distinguished Global Professor of Creative Writing in Spanish at New York University.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHelen Lane (1917-2004) was a translator who worked primarily with French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish literature. Ronald Christ is the cofounder of Lumen Books and SITE magazine and Professor Emeritus of English at Rutgers University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sternberg Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50382730658066,"sku":"9783956796067","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e9eca3c5-463a-44bb-a32b-6bb24155d125.jpg?v=1728715490","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/custody-of-the-eyes-9783956796067","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}