Anna Hinton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3892524 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Hinton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Hinton |
| SIGNATURE | HINTON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Texas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Dissembling Bodily and Literary Wholeness
In this article, I analyze Gloria Naylor's Mama Day and Erna Brodber's Myal in order to demonstrate that African-derived spiritual systems are central in Black women's fictional depictions and theorizing of healing and disability. I argue that the violence of what Moya Bailey terms misogynoir is writ on Black women's body, mind, and spirit-the latter of which is absent in disability studies frameworks yet central to healing and liberation in this…
Origins, Objects, Orientations
No abstract available
A War of Minds Waged Against Bodies
In disability studies, discussing the process of becoming disabled is often discouraged. It is not ok to ask “what happened” because it positions disability as an accident and otherwise undesirable. Instead, the field has focused on the social model as a way to divorce disability from discourses about suffering, and rightly so, affirm disabled identity while challenging social societal attitudes that devalue disabled life and obstacles such as en…
Making Do with What You Don't Have
The article analyzes themes of black motherhood through the lens of disability in Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998). It positions the series' protagonist, Lauren Olamina, as a maternal figure with a disability, and argues that her experiences reveal how ableism is used to devalue motherhood in the text. The article connects with larger discourse on controlling images about black mothers such as the …
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Making Do with What You Don't Have
The article analyzes themes of black motherhood through the lens of disability in Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998). It positions the series' protagonist, Lauren Olamina, as a maternal figure with a disability, and argues that her experiences reveal how ableism is used to devalue motherhood in the text. The article connects with larger discourse on controlling images about black mothers such as the …
A War of Minds Waged Against Bodies
In disability studies, discussing the process of becoming disabled is often discouraged. It is not ok to ask “what happened” because it positions disability as an accident and otherwise undesirable. Instead, the field has focused on the social model as a way to divorce disability from discourses about suffering, and rightly so, affirm disabled identity while challenging social societal attitudes that devalue disabled life and obstacles such as en…
Origins, Objects, Orientations
No abstract available
Dissembling Bodily and Literary Wholeness
In this article, I analyze Gloria Naylor's Mama Day and Erna Brodber's Myal in order to demonstrate that African-derived spiritual systems are central in Black women's fictional depictions and theorizing of healing and disability. I argue that the violence of what Moya Bailey terms misogynoir is writ on Black women's body, mind, and spirit-the latter of which is absent in disability studies frameworks yet central to healing and liberation in this…
Canadian Identity and History (3 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Disability studies (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Race, History, and American Society (2 works) · Ableism (1 work)