Charlie D Hankin
Biographic Data
| ID | 331627 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charlie D Hankin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charlie D |
| FAMILY NAME | Hankin |
| SIGNATURE | HANKIN C D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5863-8459 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Writing Cumbia Villera
Following the 2001 crisis in Argentina, cumbia villera emerged as a national music. Writers such as Washington Cucurto and Gabriela Cabezón Cámara incorporated the genre in their novels to reevaluate the political function of art in a neoliberal context. This article has two objectives: to consider the intermediality between cumbia and literature in two post-crisis novels; and to analyze how this intermediality engages with and reconfigures notio…
Words and Rhythm, Sound and Text
Ekphrasis and the Ear
Ekphrasis and the Ear:Rita Indiana's Conjuring Poetics Charlie D. Hankin Por letra no te preocupeQue yo soy mi propia escuelaEn lo que tú sacate un coroYo escribí cinco novelas. – Rita Indiana, "Como un dragón" When asked to comment on her music, Dominican writer, musician, and performance artist Rita Indiana once called her merengueinflected novel Papi (2005) her "first album" (A Charla). Five years later, the release of El Juidero (2010), a mer…
Enraizados Da Letra
Several scholars have outlined the Afro-diasporic connections and semiotic features common to global iterations of hip-hop. This article proposes that what connects rappers in Brazil, Cuba, and Haiti is a specific redefinition of rap as intermedial writing. Guided by ethnographic insights, I trace the recurrent figure of writing through a corpus of songs released by Brazilian, Cuban, and Haitian rappers between roughly 2000 and 2015. Bringing tog…
The (Latin) American underground
Havana functions as a node for Latin American “underground” hip hop from which artists rehearse cosmopolitanism from the periphery. Treating Havana as a marginocentric city, I suggest that hip hop culture can be seen as an important channel for the transnational flow of cultural capital and the decolonization of knowledge. I examine Havana’s marginocentric position vis-à-vis the Latin American hip hop network as both a physical meeting place and …
Enraizados Da Letra
Several scholars have outlined the Afro-diasporic connections and semiotic features common to global iterations of hip-hop. This article proposes that what connects rappers in Brazil, Cuba, and Haiti is a specific redefinition of rap as intermedial writing. Guided by ethnographic insights, I trace the recurrent figure of writing through a corpus of songs released by Brazilian, Cuban, and Haitian rappers between roughly 2000 and 2015. Bringing tog…
The (Latin) American underground
Havana functions as a node for Latin American “underground” hip hop from which artists rehearse cosmopolitanism from the periphery. Treating Havana as a marginocentric city, I suggest that hip hop culture can be seen as an important channel for the transnational flow of cultural capital and the decolonization of knowledge. I examine Havana’s marginocentric position vis-à-vis the Latin American hip hop network as both a physical meeting place and …
Enraizados Da Letra
Several scholars have outlined the Afro-diasporic connections and semiotic features common to global iterations of hip-hop. This article proposes that what connects rappers in Brazil, Cuba, and Haiti is a specific redefinition of rap as intermedial writing. Guided by ethnographic insights, I trace the recurrent figure of writing through a corpus of songs released by Brazilian, Cuban, and Haitian rappers between roughly 2000 and 2015. Bringing tog…
Ekphrasis and the Ear
Ekphrasis and the Ear:Rita Indiana's Conjuring Poetics Charlie D. Hankin Por letra no te preocupeQue yo soy mi propia escuelaEn lo que tú sacate un coroYo escribí cinco novelas. – Rita Indiana, "Como un dragón" When asked to comment on her music, Dominican writer, musician, and performance artist Rita Indiana once called her merengueinflected novel Papi (2005) her "first album" (A Charla). Five years later, the release of El Juidero (2010), a mer…
Words and Rhythm, Sound and Text
Writing Cumbia Villera
Following the 2001 crisis in Argentina, cumbia villera emerged as a national music. Writers such as Washington Cucurto and Gabriela Cabezón Cámara incorporated the genre in their novels to reevaluate the political function of art in a neoliberal context. This article has two objectives: to consider the intermediality between cumbia and literature in two post-crisis novels; and to analyze how this intermediality engages with and reconfigures notio…
Art (3 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (3 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (2 works) · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Latin American Literature Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Music History and Culture (2 works)