Kerstin Oloff
Biographic Data
| ID | 643557 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kerstin Oloff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kerstin |
| FAMILY NAME | Oloff |
| SIGNATURE | OLOFF K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5324-9446 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“The One Who Comes from the Sea”: Marine Crisis and the New Oceanic Weird in Rita Indiana’s La mucama de Omicunlé (2015)
Caribbean literature is permeated by submarine aesthetics registering the environmental histories of colonialism and capitalism. In this essay, we contribute to the emergent discipline of critical ocean studies by delineating the contours of the “Oceanic Weird”. We begin with a brief survey of Old Weird tales by authors such as William Hope Hodgson and, most famously, H.P. Lovecraft, who were writing in the context of a world still dominated by E…
From the Novela de la Caña to Junot Díaz's “cake-eater”: World-literature, the world-food-system and the Dominican Republic
Significant changes occurred from the 1870s onwards, which laid the foundations for today's highly uneven, globalized world-food-system. It is in this context that Dominican and Dominican-American literary aesthetics are particularly revealing, as they register the impact of the rapid integration of the Dominican Republic into the world market through the sugar industry. As I argue, while the political ecology fuelling the foundational romance En…
From sugar to oil: The ecology of George A. Romero'sNight of the Living Dead
Reading the zombie as an essentially ecological figure, this article argues that zombie aesthetics are necessarily animated by the combined exploitation of alienated labour-power and appropriation of unpaid work/energy, material resources, agricultural lands and fossilized fuels. Though oil had always been crucial to the globalization of the zombie via the film industry, an overt preoccupation with oil only belatedly seeped into zombie aesthetics…
Terra Nostra and the Rewriting of the Modern Subject: Archetypes, Myth, and Selfhood
This article argues that one of the most important contributions of Carlos Fuentes's Terra Nostra is its rewriting of the modern subject. Through its metafi ctional dimension, the novel seeks to change the legacy of the recoding of subjectivities begun in the Spanish Golden Age. More specifi cally, it is through the construction of its characters and the way in which the latter depend on, and grow out of, the structure of the novel that Fuentes r…
Latin American Research Review: Volume 46 Number 3, 2011
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Translated Abstracts
Este articulo propone que una de las mayores aportaciones de Carlos Fuentes en Terra Nostra consiste en su afan por rescribir el sujeto moderno. Gracias a su cariz metaficcional, Terra Nostra logra modificar ellegado de recodificacion de subjetividades iniciado en la Espana del Siglo de Oro. Dicho de otro modo, es a traves de la construccion de los personajes, asf como de la manera en que estos dependen y emergen de la estructura misma de la nove…
Forthcoming in Larr
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
From the Novela de la Caña to Junot Díaz's “cake-eater”: World-literature, the world-food-system and the Dominican Republic
Significant changes occurred from the 1870s onwards, which laid the foundations for today's highly uneven, globalized world-food-system. It is in this context that Dominican and Dominican-American literary aesthetics are particularly revealing, as they register the impact of the rapid integration of the Dominican Republic into the world market through the sugar industry. As I argue, while the political ecology fuelling the foundational romance En…
Terra Nostra and the Rewriting of the Modern Subject: Archetypes, Myth, and Selfhood
This article argues that one of the most important contributions of Carlos Fuentes's Terra Nostra is its rewriting of the modern subject. Through its metafi ctional dimension, the novel seeks to change the legacy of the recoding of subjectivities begun in the Spanish Golden Age. More specifi cally, it is through the construction of its characters and the way in which the latter depend on, and grow out of, the structure of the novel that Fuentes r…
Latin American Research Review: Volume 46 Number 3, 2011
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Translated Abstracts
Este articulo propone que una de las mayores aportaciones de Carlos Fuentes en Terra Nostra consiste en su afan por rescribir el sujeto moderno. Gracias a su cariz metaficcional, Terra Nostra logra modificar ellegado de recodificacion de subjetividades iniciado en la Espana del Siglo de Oro. Dicho de otro modo, es a traves de la construccion de los personajes, asf como de la manera en que estos dependen y emergen de la estructura misma de la nove…
Forthcoming in Larr
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
From sugar to oil: The ecology of George A. Romero'sNight of the Living Dead
Reading the zombie as an essentially ecological figure, this article argues that zombie aesthetics are necessarily animated by the combined exploitation of alienated labour-power and appropriation of unpaid work/energy, material resources, agricultural lands and fossilized fuels. Though oil had always been crucial to the globalization of the zombie via the film industry, an overt preoccupation with oil only belatedly seeped into zombie aesthetics…
From the Novela de la Caña to Junot Díaz's “cake-eater”: World-literature, the world-food-system and the Dominican Republic
Significant changes occurred from the 1870s onwards, which laid the foundations for today's highly uneven, globalized world-food-system. It is in this context that Dominican and Dominican-American literary aesthetics are particularly revealing, as they register the impact of the rapid integration of the Dominican Republic into the world market through the sugar industry. As I argue, while the political ecology fuelling the foundational romance En…
“The One Who Comes from the Sea”: Marine Crisis and the New Oceanic Weird in Rita Indiana’s La mucama de Omicunlé (2015)
Caribbean literature is permeated by submarine aesthetics registering the environmental histories of colonialism and capitalism. In this essay, we contribute to the emergent discipline of critical ocean studies by delineating the contours of the “Oceanic Weird”. We begin with a brief survey of Old Weird tales by authors such as William Hope Hodgson and, most famously, H.P. Lovecraft, who were writing in the context of a world still dominated by E…
Art (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Physics (3 works) · Action (physics (2 works) · Cuban History and Society (2 works) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (2 works) · History (2 works) · Humanities (2 works)