Mapping Urban Sites of Resistance in Diamela Eltit's "Los vigilantes"

[...]in recalling Foucault's remarks on the Panopticism - "visibility is a trap" - the visitor's strange requests for light "enhancements" within the dark and hunger-ridden household space further expose the protagonist to the outside restraint.5 Such restraint does not remain spatially unchallenged, however. [...]in her work Justice and the Politics of Difference ( 1 990), Iris Marion Young posits that social justice in the city incontestably necessitates the presence of socially diverse groups. [...]in a recent interview at Princeton University, Eltit has commented on the social impact the coup has had on Chileans and by extension on her own intellectual/creative explorations in the past several decades.6 By stressing the need to grapple intellectually and creatively with social disparities in a more dynamic manner, Eltit has underscored that "hay que batallar contra la desigualdad porque no es solamente un problema abstracto. According to Stuart Murray in Representing Autism: Culture, Narrative, Fascination (2008), there are different degrees of autistic behavior or impairment.