In Magical Habits, Monica Huerta delivers a labyrinthine and whimsical study on the intersection between stories, race, place, and archive. The author’s lived experience as a second-generation Mexican immigrant living in Chicago is dissected to bring about an original understanding of how race complicates notions of history, capitalism, and narratives of the self. The reader’s curiosity will be piqued by Magical Habits’ experimental structure, and by the author’s decision to abandon traditional academic writing in favor of an intimate prose that fluctuates between storytelling and critical thinking.
Articles by Anaïs Ornelas Ramirez
Anaïs Ornelas Ramirez is a PhD candidate at Sorbonne Université Faculté des Lettres. Her writing and research is broadly concerned with Mexican media, gender, and the affectivity of violence. Her PhD thesis deals with narcotelenovela's gendered order and the political implications of melodrama. She is the recipient of the 2022–2023 Fulbright-García Robles scholarship.