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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

“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.

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).

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'.

"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

Perspectives on the 'other America': comparative approaches to Caribbean and Latin American culture. (2009)
Book
Oloff, K., & Niblett, M. (Eds.). (2009). Perspectives on the 'other America': comparative approaches to Caribbean and Latin American culture. Rodopi

Uniting critical writing on novels, poetry, painting, and ritual, this volume takes a regional approach to the cultures of the Caribbean Basin. Ranging across the linguistic spectrum of the area, it examines cultural production from the Anglophone, F... Read More about Perspectives on the 'other America': comparative approaches to Caribbean and Latin American culture..

Wilson Harris and Postcolonial Theory (2009)
Book Chapter
Oloff, K. (2009). Wilson Harris and Postcolonial Theory. In K. Oloff, & M. Niblett (Eds.), Perspectives on the “Other America'. Rodopi