Sarah Winstein-Hibbs
Biographic Data
| ID | 5685684 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Winstein-Hibbs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Winstein-Hibbs |
| SIGNATURE | WINSTEIN-HIBBS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Otherwise Charisma: James Baldwin and the Black Queer Archive of Civil Rights Historiography
Throughout the 1960s, charisma emerged as a keyword in US racial and sexual discourse, connoting the dazzling personality of the straight, macho head men who ruled white politics, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Black Power. In this essay, I argue that James Baldwin’s oeuvre proffers a contemporaneous body of radical black queer thought that theorizes charisma otherwise. Deploying close readings of Baldwin’s profile of Martin Lu…
A Critical Regionalist Reading of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: Rethinking Magical Realism through Afro-Caribbean Oral Narrative
This article examines the use of regional oral narratives in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) and makes a case for coupling “global,” transnational, or hemispheric readings of this text with a rich sense of regional and local cultural forms. While scholarship has primarily analyzed the novel’s fantastic figures (such as the mongoose and faceless man) through the broad lens of magical realism, my study reads these figures i…
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A Critical Regionalist Reading of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: Rethinking Magical Realism through Afro-Caribbean Oral Narrative
This article examines the use of regional oral narratives in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) and makes a case for coupling “global,” transnational, or hemispheric readings of this text with a rich sense of regional and local cultural forms. While scholarship has primarily analyzed the novel’s fantastic figures (such as the mongoose and faceless man) through the broad lens of magical realism, my study reads these figures i…
Otherwise Charisma: James Baldwin and the Black Queer Archive of Civil Rights Historiography
Throughout the 1960s, charisma emerged as a keyword in US racial and sexual discourse, connoting the dazzling personality of the straight, macho head men who ruled white politics, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Black Power. In this essay, I argue that James Baldwin’s oeuvre proffers a contemporaneous body of radical black queer thought that theorizes charisma otherwise. Deploying close readings of Baldwin’s profile of Martin Lu…
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