Christopher Shinn
Biographic Data
| ID | 4006150 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Shinn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Shinn |
| SIGNATURE | SHINN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hemispheric Postcolonialism
Building on what Günter H. Lenz describes as the “always two‐directional processes of transculturation,” this piece brings together two classic works, Gayl Jones's Corregidora and Carlos Diegues's Brazilian film, Xica da Silva (1975), specifically addressing the hemispheric connections in cross‐cultural literary and cinematic representations of black female sexuality, colonialism and slavery in the Americas. The essay presents a critical comparis…
On Machines and Mosquitoes
On Machines and Mosquitoes: Neuroscience, Bodies, and Cyborgs in Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome Get access Christopher A. Shinn Christopher A. Shinn Georgetown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 33, Issue 4, December 2008, Pages 145–166, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/33.4.145 Published: 01 December 2008
"Masquerade, Magic, and Carnival in Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man
The element of carnival-masquerade offers a wide lens through which to view black-white race relations by mirroring and magnifying racial practices in the United States. Perhaps no work of African American literature exemplifies this point more sharply than Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952), which intensifies the narrator's perceptions of race by viewing various images of whiteness and blackness through carnival's distorted mirrors. (1) While …
"Masquerade, Magic, and Carnival in Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man
The element of carnival-masquerade offers a wide lens through which to view black-white race relations by mirroring and magnifying racial practices in the United States. Perhaps no work of African American literature exemplifies this point more sharply than Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952), which intensifies the narrator's perceptions of race by viewing various images of whiteness and blackness through carnival's distorted mirrors. (1) While …
"Masquerade, Magic, and Carnival in Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man
The element of carnival-masquerade offers a wide lens through which to view black-white race relations by mirroring and magnifying racial practices in the United States. Perhaps no work of African American literature exemplifies this point more sharply than Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952), which intensifies the narrator's perceptions of race by viewing various images of whiteness and blackness through carnival's distorted mirrors. (1) While …
On Machines and Mosquitoes
On Machines and Mosquitoes: Neuroscience, Bodies, and Cyborgs in Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome Get access Christopher A. Shinn Christopher A. Shinn Georgetown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 33, Issue 4, December 2008, Pages 145–166, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/33.4.145 Published: 01 December 2008
Hemispheric Postcolonialism
Building on what Günter H. Lenz describes as the “always two‐directional processes of transculturation,” this piece brings together two classic works, Gayl Jones's Corregidora and Carlos Diegues's Brazilian film, Xica da Silva (1975), specifically addressing the hemispheric connections in cross‐cultural literary and cinematic representations of black female sexuality, colonialism and slavery in the Americas. The essay presents a critical comparis…
Art (2 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Biology (1 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (1 works) · Colonialism (1 works) · Gender Studies (1 works) · Gender Studies (1 works) · History (1 works)