Research Catalog

Title

Race sounds : the art of listening in African American literature / Nicole Brittingham Furlonge.

Author

Furlonge, Nicole Brittingham, 1972-

Publication

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2018]

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Details

Description

xii, 166 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

We live in a world of talk. Yet Race Sounds argues that we need to listen more, not just hear things, but actively listen, particularly in relation to how we engage race, gender, and class differences. 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. Intervening in discourses of African American and black feminist literatures, where sound and voice dominate, Furlonge shifts our attention to listening as an aural strategy of cultural, social, and civic engagement that not only enlivens how we read, write, and critique texts, but also informs how we might be more effective audiences for each other and against injustice in our midst. The result is a fascinating examination that brings new insights to African American literature and art, American literature, democratic philosophy, and sound studie.-- Publisher's description.

Series Statement

The New American canon: The Iowa series in contemporary literature and culture

Uniform Title

New American canon.

Subjects

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Civil rights in literature
• Ellison, Ralph
• American literature > African American authors > Philosophy
• Jones, Gayl
• American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
• Bradley, David, 1950-
• Black author
• Hurston, Zora Neale
• Brown, Sterling A., 1901-1989

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Attuned to it all: embodied listening and listening in print -- Our literary audience: listenship in Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God and Sterling Brown's "Ma Rainey" -- To hear the silence of sound: vibrational listening in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- When Malindy listens: audiogrpahic archiving in Gayl Jones's Corregidora -- If I allow myself to listen: slavery, historial thinking, and aural encounters in David Bradley's The Chaneysville incident -- New ways to make us listen: aural learning in the English classhroom -- All living is listening: toward a aurally engaged citizenry.

Call Number

Sc E 19-195

ISBN

• 9781609385613
• 1609385616

LCCN

2017039371

OCLC

1007035639

Author

Furlonge, Nicole Brittingham, 1972- author.

Title

Race sounds : the art of listening in African American literature / Nicole Brittingham Furlonge.

Publisher

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The New American canon: The Iowa series in contemporary literature and culture

New American canon.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 19-195