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Dr Kerstin Oloff's Outputs (2)

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.