Oana Sabo
Biographic Data
| ID | 5448137 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oana Sabo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oana |
| FAMILY NAME | Sabo |
| SIGNATURE | SABO O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7409-5685 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Watty Awards as a Discoverability Tool for Wattpad Authors
This article examines Wattpad’s annual writing contest—the Watty Awards—as a key mechanism of discoverability for Wattpad writers. Launched in 2010 as an informal popularity prize, it has transformed into a coveted award that has led to publicity on the platform as well as publishing and film adaptation deals. My study, which is based on qualitative interviews with Watty Award winners, reveals that being “discovered” translates differently accord…
Translingualism 2.0
This article examines recent technological and cultural developments that have transformed the publishing industry in the past two decades—the rise of social media platforms for writing and reading genre fiction as well as the translingual practices they enable. My focus on the digital aims to update earlier studies of translingualism in a world literary space (Stephen G. Kellman, Pascale Casanova). In particular, I examine a French-language plat…
Il/legitimate? Annie Ernaux’s contentious path to the Nobel Prize
This article analyses the mass media reception of Annie Ernaux's 2022 Nobel Prize, particularly the criticisms in the French press. After the award announcement, Ernaux was at once celebrated for her feminist writing and vilified for her socio-ethnographic approach and political engagements. French journalists and critics have deemed her Nobel illegitimate, calling into question the Swedish Academy's choice. The article probes the concept of 'il/…
The expediency of literature
In recent years, French authors have called for the mobilization of literature in favor of migrants’ rights and recognition. Writers, publishers, and booksellers have donated all revenue to humanitarian agencies such as La Cimade, Amnesty International, and UNHCR. At the same time, humanitarian NGOs have mobilized literary works to rally audiences around migrant issues. This essay examines how contemporary French literature and humanitarian organ…
Documenting the undocumented
This article reads comparatively Valeria Luiselli’s essay Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions and her novel Lost Children Archive in the context of critical debates about the uses of archival documents in contemporary literature and in relation to archival theory (Foucault, Derrida, Farge). Both texts draw on a wealth of archival materials to explore the causes of mass migration from Mexico and Central America to the United States si…
Disjunctures and diaspora in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss
In The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai juxtaposes underprivileged diasporic subjects in India and the USA in both the colonial past and the global present, thereby challenging its readers to develop a larger perspective on historical and global power asymmetries and minority struggles for recognition. She uses a fragmentary structure that shifts across time and space to suggest that immigration and diaspora are predicated on a rift between home …
Disjunctures and diaspora in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss
In The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai juxtaposes underprivileged diasporic subjects in India and the USA in both the colonial past and the global present, thereby challenging its readers to develop a larger perspective on historical and global power asymmetries and minority struggles for recognition. She uses a fragmentary structure that shifts across time and space to suggest that immigration and diaspora are predicated on a rift between home …
Documenting the undocumented
This article reads comparatively Valeria Luiselli’s essay Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions and her novel Lost Children Archive in the context of critical debates about the uses of archival documents in contemporary literature and in relation to archival theory (Foucault, Derrida, Farge). Both texts draw on a wealth of archival materials to explore the causes of mass migration from Mexico and Central America to the United States si…
Disjunctures and diaspora in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss
In The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai juxtaposes underprivileged diasporic subjects in India and the USA in both the colonial past and the global present, thereby challenging its readers to develop a larger perspective on historical and global power asymmetries and minority struggles for recognition. She uses a fragmentary structure that shifts across time and space to suggest that immigration and diaspora are predicated on a rift between home …
Documenting the undocumented
This article reads comparatively Valeria Luiselli’s essay Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions and her novel Lost Children Archive in the context of critical debates about the uses of archival documents in contemporary literature and in relation to archival theory (Foucault, Derrida, Farge). Both texts draw on a wealth of archival materials to explore the causes of mass migration from Mexico and Central America to the United States si…
The expediency of literature
In recent years, French authors have called for the mobilization of literature in favor of migrants’ rights and recognition. Writers, publishers, and booksellers have donated all revenue to humanitarian agencies such as La Cimade, Amnesty International, and UNHCR. At the same time, humanitarian NGOs have mobilized literary works to rally audiences around migrant issues. This essay examines how contemporary French literature and humanitarian organ…
Il/legitimate? Annie Ernaux’s contentious path to the Nobel Prize
This article analyses the mass media reception of Annie Ernaux's 2022 Nobel Prize, particularly the criticisms in the French press. After the award announcement, Ernaux was at once celebrated for her feminist writing and vilified for her socio-ethnographic approach and political engagements. French journalists and critics have deemed her Nobel illegitimate, calling into question the Swedish Academy's choice. The article probes the concept of 'il/…
Translingualism 2.0
This article examines recent technological and cultural developments that have transformed the publishing industry in the past two decades—the rise of social media platforms for writing and reading genre fiction as well as the translingual practices they enable. My focus on the digital aims to update earlier studies of translingualism in a world literary space (Stephen G. Kellman, Pascale Casanova). In particular, I examine a French-language plat…
The Watty Awards as a Discoverability Tool for Wattpad Authors
This article examines Wattpad’s annual writing contest—the Watty Awards—as a key mechanism of discoverability for Wattpad writers. Launched in 2010 as an informal popularity prize, it has transformed into a coveted award that has led to publicity on the platform as well as publishing and film adaptation deals. My study, which is based on qualitative interviews with Watty Award winners, reveals that being “discovered” translates differently accord…
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