Articles by

MAGDALENA LÓPEZ

Magdalena López. PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, she is a researcher at the International Studies Center of the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL, Portugal), and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies (University of Notre Dame, USA). She writes on the relations between power, culture and literature in the Hispanic Caribbean. She is the author of the books El Otro de Nuestra América: imaginarios frente a Estados Unidos en la República Dominicana y Cuba (Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2011); Desde el fracaso: narrativas del Caribe Insular Hispano en el siglo XXI (Verbum, 2015), and the novel Penínsulas rotas (La Moderna, 2020). She has published several articles in journals and magazines and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Salamanca (Spain), the Catholic University of Córdoba (Argentina) and the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Mexico).

Ana Mendieta: Anatomy of Uprootedness

“On September 11, 1961, a twelve-year-old girl named Ana María Mendieta boarded a KLM flight to Miami...