Alexandra Méndez

Alexandra Méndez is a PhD student in Latin American and Iberian Cultures and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. Her research focuses on early modern narratives about the New World in Italy and Spain.


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The Shifting Fictions of Mexico City

In Juan Pablo Villalobos’s I’ll Sell You a Dog, nothing is sacred and reality is absurd, as flimsy and fissured as the unevenly sinking ground of Mexico City …