Race Sounds: The Art of Listening in African American Literature

Race Sounds: The Art of Listening in African American Literature
ISBN-10
1609385616
ISBN-13
9781609385613
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
206
Language
English
Published
2018-05-15
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Author
Nicole Brittingham Furlonge

Description

Forging new ideas about the relationship between race and sound, Furlonge explores how black artists--including well-known figures such as writers Ralph Ellison and Zora Neale Hurston, and singers Bettye LaVette and Aretha Franklin, among others--imagine listening. Drawing from a multimedia archive, Furlonge examines how many of the texts call on readers to "listen in print." In the process, she gives us a new way to read and interpret these canonical, aurally inflected texts, and demonstrates how listening allows us to engage with the sonic lives of difference as readers, thinkers, and citizens.

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