Month: January 2018

The journal Anthurium has published a review of Market Aesthetics.

Paula Park posits that “Market Aesthetics gives new insights to how Caribbean diasporic writers seek to communicate with readers who consume their historical fiction.” Additionally, she argues that the book “asks readers of Caribbean historical fiction to evaluate their goal as they invest themselves in a reality and a past that they cannot experience first hand. In the end, Machado Sáez thoughtfully reminds us that we—as scholars or readers— will never cease to question our ethical imperative because we are also part of a market that endeavors to label us one way or another.”

Check out the rest of the review here.

Despite the obstacles presented by the “bomb cyclone” blizzard, the MLA 2018 panel on “Digital Humanities in Practice: Caribbean Models” was a resounding success. Megan Jeanette Myers of Iowa State University moderated thepanel. While Kaiama L. Glover of Barnard College was unable to attend, the panel opened with a discussion of her multimodal collaborative project, In the Same Boats. Nathan Dize of Vanderbilt University presented on “An Explosion in the Archives: Reframing French Archives through Caribbean Digital Praxis”and discussed on the DH archive project, Colonies in Crisis. As the final presenter, Elena Machado Sáez introduced her current research project, comparing Lin-Manuel Miranda’s strategies for negotiating intimacy and ethics on Twitter with those of other Latinx-Caribbean writers. She focused on a comparative analysis of Miranda’s use of Twitter, distinguishing his rhetoric of affiliation from that of other Latinx writers.