Aina Hunter

author
western Massachusetts
Charlotte and the Chickenman; Whiskeytit Books, 2022

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Aina Hunter

Aina Hunter’s "Charlotte and the Chickenman: the Reluctant Nigrescence of Charlotte-Noa Tibbit" is an allegory in Afropunk and a black-womanist Bildungsroman burlesque told in reverse. Anti-hero Charlotte is on the rebound and grasping for a foothold. No easy task when home is an anti-black hellscape of animal-farmed female parts. It's just that everything seems irredeemably terrible, now. Or maybe it has always been like this. A subsidized wellness adventure in dreamy near-future Haiti may offer some perspective.
Aina Hunter used to write for magazines and newspapers.