Olivia Vázquez-Medina
Biographic Data
| ID | 2962785 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olivia Vázquez-Medina |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olivia |
| FAMILY NAME | Vázquez-Medina |
| SIGNATURE | VÁZQUEZ-MEDINA O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wadham College, Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8036-5645 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Vibrancy and Desolation in Fernanda Trías’ Mugre rosa (2020)
Mugre rosa (2020), by Uruguayan author Fernanda Trías, portrays a dystopian world devastated by a plague linked to environmental toxicity. It is also, I argue, a work of extraordinary vividness that evinces a concern about literary form and language. Trías's style – her intricate use of description, formal and structural innovations, and figurative expression— possesses a vibrancy that works against the desolation enfolding through the diegesis. …
Ugly Feelings in Mariana Enriquez’s Short Fiction
This article explores the affective resonances of three stories from Mariana Enriquez’s Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego (2016). Although fear is the predominant emotion evoked in Enriquez’s brand of political horror, there is considerable depth and complexity to her stories, in terms of both the emotional content portrayed in them and the readerly solicitation staged through the narratives’ formal and stylistic qualities. The synergies between…
Estéticas de la ausencia
La noción de la ausencia caracteriza la escritura de Cristina Rivera Garza, tanto en términos conceptuales y temáticos como formales y estilísticos. En este artículo exploro diversas estéticas de la ausencia, primero en dos autores con los que Rivera Garza dialoga a través de su obra: Amparo Dávila y Juan Rulfo. Me enfoco en ‘aquello que no se nombra’ en algunos cuentos de Dávila, proponiendo que en dicha ausencia reside su sentido mismo. Con res…
Myopia and Dazzlement
This article explores the various meanings constructed around the idea of defective sight in Sergio Pitol’s Venetian narrative in El arte de la fuga (1996). I argue that through his playful engagement with the many connotations of vision and the place of Venice in the cultural imagination of the West, Pitol puts forward a multi-layered meditation on literature and writing, which are among his main preoccupations in El arte de la fuga and througho…
Seeing the insane in Cristina Rivera Garza's Nadie me verá llorar (1999)
This article centres on the representation of mental illness in Cristina Rivera Garza's Nadie me verá llorar (1999). The discussion is informed by a simultaneous reading of the author's historiographic texts, in particular of La Castañeda. Narrativas dolientes desde el Manicomio General. México 1910–1930 (2010). The article explores the novel's engagement with the theories of hygiene and degeneration; its interrogation of photography as a medium …
Dirty Realism and Filthy Lucre
The category of ‘dirty realism’ has been associated with Cuban fiction of the Special Period (1990–2005) by several critics including Anke Birkenmaier, Guillermina De Ferrari and Esther Whitfield.1
Ugly Feelings in Mariana Enriquez’s Short Fiction
This article explores the affective resonances of three stories from Mariana Enriquez’s Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego (2016). Although fear is the predominant emotion evoked in Enriquez’s brand of political horror, there is considerable depth and complexity to her stories, in terms of both the emotional content portrayed in them and the readerly solicitation staged through the narratives’ formal and stylistic qualities. The synergies between…
Dirty Realism and Filthy Lucre
The category of ‘dirty realism’ has been associated with Cuban fiction of the Special Period (1990–2005) by several critics including Anke Birkenmaier, Guillermina De Ferrari and Esther Whitfield.1
Seeing the insane in Cristina Rivera Garza's Nadie me verá llorar (1999)
This article centres on the representation of mental illness in Cristina Rivera Garza's Nadie me verá llorar (1999). The discussion is informed by a simultaneous reading of the author's historiographic texts, in particular of La Castañeda. Narrativas dolientes desde el Manicomio General. México 1910–1930 (2010). The article explores the novel's engagement with the theories of hygiene and degeneration; its interrogation of photography as a medium …
Myopia and Dazzlement
This article explores the various meanings constructed around the idea of defective sight in Sergio Pitol’s Venetian narrative in El arte de la fuga (1996). I argue that through his playful engagement with the many connotations of vision and the place of Venice in the cultural imagination of the West, Pitol puts forward a multi-layered meditation on literature and writing, which are among his main preoccupations in El arte de la fuga and througho…
Estéticas de la ausencia
La noción de la ausencia caracteriza la escritura de Cristina Rivera Garza, tanto en términos conceptuales y temáticos como formales y estilísticos. En este artículo exploro diversas estéticas de la ausencia, primero en dos autores con los que Rivera Garza dialoga a través de su obra: Amparo Dávila y Juan Rulfo. Me enfoco en ‘aquello que no se nombra’ en algunos cuentos de Dávila, proponiendo que en dicha ausencia reside su sentido mismo. Con res…
Ugly Feelings in Mariana Enriquez’s Short Fiction
This article explores the affective resonances of three stories from Mariana Enriquez’s Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego (2016). Although fear is the predominant emotion evoked in Enriquez’s brand of political horror, there is considerable depth and complexity to her stories, in terms of both the emotional content portrayed in them and the readerly solicitation staged through the narratives’ formal and stylistic qualities. The synergies between…
Vibrancy and Desolation in Fernanda Trías’ Mugre rosa (2020)
Mugre rosa (2020), by Uruguayan author Fernanda Trías, portrays a dystopian world devastated by a plague linked to environmental toxicity. It is also, I argue, a work of extraordinary vividness that evinces a concern about literary form and language. Trías's style – her intricate use of description, formal and structural innovations, and figurative expression— possesses a vibrancy that works against the desolation enfolding through the diegesis. …
Art (6 works) · Literature (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Latin American Literature Studies (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism (2 works)