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The journal College Literature has just published a review of Market Aesthetics in their April 2016 issue.

In the College Literature review, Maya Socolovsky asserts that “Machado Sáez makes a valuable and original contribution to the field of Caribbean diasporic literature with her superb analysis not only of the fiction itself but also of its global contexts, its ethics of writing production and reading strategies, and its paratexts […] The scope of the work is impressive, as is the insistent call that underlies all the readings, for us to be attentive to our ethical sensibilities and obligations as scholars and readers of Caribbean historical fiction” (472).

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The journal Caribbean Studies has just published a review of Market Aesthetics in their January-June 2015 issue.

In the Caribbean Studies review, Kristy Ulibarri argues that “Machado Sáez’s call to depart from the celebratory cosmopolitanism of diaspora criticism toward a project where critics must unpack the contradictions of a market aesthetics is a significant critique for Caribbean Studies.” She notes that “In an age of globalization and multiculturalism, this book astutely demonstrates how struggles over representation are struggles about aesthetics.”

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The journal MELUS has just published a review of Market Aesthetics in their Spring 2016 issue.

In the MELUS review, Marion Rohrleitner argues that “Market Aesthetics draws attention to the reasons, possibilities, and limitations inherent in the rise of historical fiction in Caribbean diasporic literature and offers a richly contextualized discussion of the effect of multicultural debates and a globalizing market on the production and consumption of literature.” She specifically highlights Chapter One, “Mixed Blessings: Readerships, Postcolonial Ethics, and the Problem of Intimacy,” as “particularly insightful and effective” and envisions this chapter as “a staple assignment in all of my graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in Latina/o and Caribbean diasporic literatures.”

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Elena Machado Sáez gives a public lecture at the University of Oregon on “From Dictatorship to the Digital: Contexts for Reading Junot Díaz’s Oscar Wao,” based on her research from Market Aesthetics: The Purchase of the Past in Caribbean Diasporic Fiction (University of Virginia Press 2015).

Elena Machado Sáez joins the faculty at Bucknell University in Fall 2015!

Check out her profile from Bucknell Faculty Stories.

Elena Machado Sáez gives a public lecture at the University of California at Berkeley on “Mixed Blessings: The Market Aesthetics of Julia Alvarez’s In the Name of Salomé,” based on her research from Market Aesthetics: The Purchase of the Past in Caribbean Diasporic Fiction (University of Virginia Press 2015).

Elena Machado Sáez gives a public lecture at Stanford University on “Junot Díaz and the Dictatorship of the Market.”

Elena Machado Sáez gives a public lecture at Broward College on “Static Signals: Arlene Dávila, Jeannine Capó Crucet, and Markets of Latinidad.”