Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
- The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Histories of the Present
- Part II African American Genres
- Part III Mapping New Identities and Geographies
- Part IV Critical Approaches
- 13 African American Soundscapes
- 14 African American Literature and Visual Culture
- 15 The Affective Turn
- 16 Print Culture and Literary Sociology
- 17 Digital and New Media Cultures of Protest
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To …
13 - African American Soundscapes
from Part IV - Critical Approaches
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 December 2023
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
- The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Histories of the Present
- Part II African American Genres
- Part III Mapping New Identities and Geographies
- Part IV Critical Approaches
- 13 African American Soundscapes
- 14 African American Literature and Visual Culture
- 15 The Affective Turn
- 16 Print Culture and Literary Sociology
- 17 Digital and New Media Cultures of Protest
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To …
Summary
Touching down in a few of the many geographies of Black sound, this chapter pauses to listen in between the lines and forms of Black literary creation. Inclusive of readings of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Paul Beatty, Jesmyn Ward, and others, this chapter examines the penetrating collusions of the sonic and/as the literary in order to briefly mark their interreliance and to consider the conditions and futures of blackness as improvisational practice.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023