Dr Kerstin Oloff's Outputs (26)

From the Washington Consensus to the Commodities Consensus: Feminist Ecogothic and Anti-extractivism in Literature from Argentina (2024)
Book Chapter
Oloff, K. (in press). From the Washington Consensus to the Commodities Consensus: Feminist Ecogothic and Anti-extractivism in Literature from Argentina. In K. Oloff, S. Deckard, T. De Loughrey, & C. Westall (Eds.), Routledge companion to literature and the environment. Routledge

Drawing on world-ecology approaches to ecogothic and feminist theories of social reproduction, this chapter reads two paradigmatic literary examples of feminist ecogothic literature from Argentina. In the last decade, Agustina Baztérrica’s Cadáver ex... Read More about From the Washington Consensus to the Commodities Consensus: Feminist Ecogothic and Anti-extractivism in Literature from Argentina.

Ecology of the Zombie: World-Culture and the Monstrous (2023)
Book
Oloff, K. (2023). Ecology of the Zombie: World-Culture and the Monstrous. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press

Ecology of the Zombie marks a significant intervention into the fields of world literature, film studies, ecocriticism, and Gothic Studies. Arguing that the zombie is a fundamentally ecological figure, the book offers original readings of a range of... Read More about Ecology of the Zombie: World-Culture and the Monstrous.

Alimentary Gothic: Horror, Puerto Rico, and the World-Food-System (2021)
Book Chapter
Oloff, K. (2021). Alimentary Gothic: Horror, Puerto Rico, and the World-Food-System. In C. Campbell, M. Niblett, & K. Oloff (Eds.), Literary and Cultural Production, World-ecology, and the Global Food System (193-214). Palgrave Macmillan

Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology and the Global Food System (2021)
Book
Campbell, C., Niblett, M., & Oloff, K. (Eds.). (2021). Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology and the Global Food System. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76155-4

From the novela de la cana to Junot Diaz's 'cake-eater': World-Literature, the World Food System and the Dominican Republic (2021)
Book Chapter
Oloff, K. (in press). From the novela de la cana to Junot Diaz's 'cake-eater': World-Literature, the World Food System and the Dominican Republic. In S. Gunne, & N. Lazarus (Eds.), The world-literary system and the Atlantic. Routledge

“The One Who Comes from the Sea”: Marine Crisis and the New Oceanic Weird in Rita Indiana’s La mucama de Omicunlé (2015) (2020)
Journal Article
Oloff, K., & Deckard, S. (2020). “The One Who Comes from the Sea”: Marine Crisis and the New Oceanic Weird in Rita Indiana’s La mucama de Omicunlé (2015). Humanities, 9(3), Article 86. https://doi.org/10.3390/h9030086

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 “Oce... Read More about “The One Who Comes from the Sea”: Marine Crisis and the New Oceanic Weird in Rita Indiana’s La mucama de Omicunlé (2015).

From "Section 936" to "Junk": Neoliberalism, Ecology and Puerto Rican Literature (2019)
Book Chapter
Oloff, K. (2019). From "Section 936" to "Junk": Neoliberalism, Ecology and Puerto Rican Literature. In S. Deckard, & S. Shapiro (Eds.), World Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Culture of Discontent (69-91). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05441-0_3

Puerto Rican literature from the mid-1970s onwards has offered incisive ways to think through shifting socio-ecological realities under neoliberalism, which it arguably registered through an intensifying aesthetics of socio-ecological degradation. Th... Read More about From "Section 936" to "Junk": Neoliberalism, Ecology and Puerto Rican Literature.

From the novela de la caña to Junot Díaz's 'cake-eater': World-Literature, the World Food System and the Dominican Republic (2019)
Journal Article
Oloff, K. (2019). From the novela de la caña to Junot Díaz's 'cake-eater': World-Literature, the World Food System and the Dominican Republic. Atlantic Studies, 16(1), 90-107. https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2017.1410760

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 th... Read More about From the novela de la caña to Junot Díaz's 'cake-eater': World-Literature, the World Food System and the Dominican Republic.

Marie Vieux Chauvet's World-Gothic: Commodity Frontiers, "Cheap Natures" and the Monstrous-Feminine (2017)
Book Chapter
Oloff, K. (2017). Marie Vieux Chauvet's World-Gothic: Commodity Frontiers, "Cheap Natures" and the Monstrous-Feminine. In S. Casanova-Vizcaíno, & I. Ordiz (Eds.), Latin American Gothic in literature and culture : transposition, hybridization, tropicalization. Routledge

From Sugar to Oil: The Ecology of George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) (2017)
Journal Article
Oloff, K. (2017). From Sugar to Oil: The Ecology of George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968). Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 53(3), 316-328. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2017.1337677

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, agricultur... Read More about From Sugar to Oil: The Ecology of George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968).

The 'Monstrous Head' and the 'Mouth of Hell': The Gothic Ecologies of the 'Mexican Miracle' (2016)
Book Chapter
Oloff, K. (2016). The 'Monstrous Head' and the 'Mouth of Hell': The Gothic Ecologies of the 'Mexican Miracle'. In M. Anderson, & Z. Bora (Eds.), Ecological crisis and cultural representation in Latin America. Lexington

Zombies, Gender, and World-Ecology: Gothic Narrative in the Work of Ana Lydia Vega and Mayra Montero (2016)
Book Chapter
Oloff, K. (2016). Zombies, Gender, and World-Ecology: Gothic Narrative in the Work of Ana Lydia Vega and Mayra Montero. In C. Campbell, & M. Niblett (Eds.), The Caribbean : aesthetics, world-ecology, politics (46-62). Liverpool University Press. https://doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781781382950.003.0004

Towards the World-Zombie: The Monstrous, the 'Human' and the Dominican-Haitian Frontier in Malas Hierbas and 'Monstro' (2014)
Book Chapter
Oloff, K. (2014). Towards the World-Zombie: The Monstrous, the 'Human' and the Dominican-Haitian Frontier in Malas Hierbas and 'Monstro'. In S. Fouz-Hernández, & L. Cairns (Eds.), Re-thinking Identities: Cultural Articulations of Alterity and Resistance in the New Millenium (189-212). Peter Lang

This volume sets out to re-imagine the theoretical and epistemological presuppositions of existing scholarship on identities. Despite a well-established body of scholarly texts that examine the concept from a wide range of perspectives, there is a su... Read More about Towards the World-Zombie: The Monstrous, the 'Human' and the Dominican-Haitian Frontier in Malas Hierbas and 'Monstro'.

¿‘El hábito hace al monje’?: Cross-dressing, Gender and Sexuality in Benitez-Rojo’s Mujer en traje de batalla. (2014)
Book Chapter
Oloff, K. (2014). ¿‘El hábito hace al monje’?: Cross-dressing, Gender and Sexuality in Benitez-Rojo’s Mujer en traje de batalla. In M. C. Fumagalli, B. Ledent, & R. del Valle Alcalá (Eds.), The Cross-dressed Caribbean: Writing, Politics, Sexualities. University of Virginia Press

'Greening the zombie': Caribbean Gothic, World-Ecology and Socio-ecological Degradation (2012)
Journal Article
Oloff, K. (2012). 'Greening the zombie': Caribbean Gothic, World-Ecology and Socio-ecological Degradation. Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, 16, 31-45. https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2012.10589098

“Lo humano es una historia, un cuento de hadas”: entrevista a Pedro Cabiya (2012)
Digital Artefact
Oloff, K., & Cabiya, P. (2012). “Lo humano es una historia, un cuento de hadas”: entrevista a Pedro Cabiya. [[Media unknown]]

Representation and Rupture in the Age of Globalization: Narrative Strategies in Manlio Argueta's Cuzcatlán donde bate la mar del sur and the Debate on Subalternity. (2011)
Journal Article
Oloff, K. (2011). Representation and Rupture in the Age of Globalization: Narrative Strategies in Manlio Argueta's Cuzcatlán donde bate la mar del sur and the Debate on Subalternity. Revista Hispánica Moderna, 64(2), 149-165. https://doi.org/10.1353/rhm.2011.0023

Terra Nostra and the Rewriting of the Modern Subject: Archetypes, Myth, and Selfhood. (2011)
Journal Article
Oloff, K. (2011). Terra Nostra and the Rewriting of the Modern Subject: Archetypes, Myth, and Selfhood. Latin American Research Review, 46(3), 3-20. https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2011.0044

"La muerte de Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes." (2011)
Book Chapter
Oloff, K. (2011). "La muerte de Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes.". In M. D. P. Blanco, B. Bollig, & C. Levey (Eds.), The Literary Encyclopedia. Literary Dictionary Company

Divergent Dictions: Contemporary Dominican Literature. (2010)
Book
Oloff, K. (2010). Divergent Dictions: Contemporary Dominican Literature