Fernando Varela
Biographic Data
| ID | 3730817 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fernando Varela |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fernando |
| FAMILY NAME | Varela |
| SIGNATURE | VARELA F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Lutheran University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2574-579X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
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Taxidermy and the Environment in Cristina García’s The Agüero Sisters
Cristina García’s novel The Agüero Sisters (1997) centers on Constancia and Reina Agüero, two sisters whose mother, Blanca Agüero, died in Cuba during their childhood years in the first half of the twentieth century. Their father, Ignacio Agüero, was a renowned ornithologist and taxidermist with an interest in Cuba’s endangered species before suddenly committing suicide after his wife’s death. Constancia moves to the United States soon after the …
Myxomatosis and Radioactivity in Carlos Saura’s La caza ( The Hunt , 1966)
The myxoma virus (MYXV) was used in Australia in 1950 to control, albeit temporarily, the overpopulation of the invasive European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). A different strand of the virus was released in France two years later, resulting in the drastic decline of European rabbits in the Iberian Peninsula and the rest of Europe. The MYXV’s disease, myxomatosis, is a highly contagious and normally fatal infection in a rabbit species lacking r…
Machado de Assis, Houses, and the Gaze
A central theme throughout Machado de Assis’s works is the way characters look at each other inside and outside houses. This article argues that vision, race, and houses define his narrative strategies in the short stories “Pai contra Mãe” and “O Caso da Vara,” and the novels Dom Casmurro, Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas, and Esaú e Jacó. In doing so, it shows how eyes are key to understanding racism, houses, and, more broadly, Machado de Assis’s…
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Machado de Assis, Houses, and the Gaze
A central theme throughout Machado de Assis’s works is the way characters look at each other inside and outside houses. This article argues that vision, race, and houses define his narrative strategies in the short stories “Pai contra Mãe” and “O Caso da Vara,” and the novels Dom Casmurro, Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas, and Esaú e Jacó. In doing so, it shows how eyes are key to understanding racism, houses, and, more broadly, Machado de Assis’s…
Myxomatosis and Radioactivity in Carlos Saura’s La caza ( The Hunt , 1966)
The myxoma virus (MYXV) was used in Australia in 1950 to control, albeit temporarily, the overpopulation of the invasive European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). A different strand of the virus was released in France two years later, resulting in the drastic decline of European rabbits in the Iberian Peninsula and the rest of Europe. The MYXV’s disease, myxomatosis, is a highly contagious and normally fatal infection in a rabbit species lacking r…
Taxidermy and the Environment in Cristina García’s The Agüero Sisters
Cristina García’s novel The Agüero Sisters (1997) centers on Constancia and Reina Agüero, two sisters whose mother, Blanca Agüero, died in Cuba during their childhood years in the first half of the twentieth century. Their father, Ignacio Agüero, was a renowned ornithologist and taxidermist with an interest in Cuba’s endangered species before suddenly committing suicide after his wife’s death. Constancia moves to the United States soon after the …
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Art (3 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Garcia (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research (1 works) · Biology (1 works) · Cancer Research and Treatments (1 works)