Research Catalog

Title

The cry of the senses : listening to Latinx and Caribbean poetics / Ren Ellis Neyra.

Author

Ellis Neyra, Ren, 1983-

Publication

• Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Description

xxii, 222 pages : illustrations (some color); 23 cm.

Summary

"In The Cry of the Senses, Ren Ellis Neyra examines the imaginative possibility for sound and poetics to foster new modes of sensorial solidarity in the Caribbean Americas. Weaving together the black radical tradition with Caribbean and Latinx performance, cinema, music, and literature, Ellis Neyra highlights the ways Latinx and Caribbean sonic practices challenge antiblack, colonial, post-Enlightenment, and humanist epistemologies. They locate and address the sonic in its myriad manifestations-across genres and forms, in a legal trial, and in the art and writing of Xandra Ibarra, the Fania All-Stars, Beatriz Santiago Muñóz, Edouard Glissant, and Eduardo Corral - while demonstrating how it operates as a raucous form of diasporic dissent and connectivity. Throughout, Ellis Neyra emphasizes Caribbean and Latinx sensorial practices while attuning readers to the many forms of blackness and queerness. Tracking the sonic through their method of multi-sensorial, poetic listening, Ellis Neyra shows how attending to the senses can inspire alternate, ethical ways of collective listening and being"--

Series Statement

Dissident acts

Uniform Title

Dissident acts.

Subject

• Hispanic Americans in the performing arts
• Hispanic Americans > Ethnic identity
• Queer theory
• Performing arts and literature
• Art and race

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-218) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Cry Bomba -- Chapter 1: "ŁAnormales!": Unruly Audition in Performances of 1970s Salsa -- Chapter 2: "I have been forced to hear a lot": The FALN, The Masses Are Asses, and the -- Shapes and Sounds of Defiant Women -- Chapter 3: Sensorial Errancy in Beatriz Santiago Muñóz's Cinema -- Chapter 4: Slow Lightning, Ecstatic Mourning, and Migratory Refuge -- Coda, in three: "fifty-two plastic bombs exploding as one, thundered against the sky"

Call Number

MWED 21-914

ISBN

• 9781478010111
• 1478010118
• 9781478011170
• 1478011173
• 9781478012696 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781478090496 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2020018209

OCLC

1150924462

Author

Ellis Neyra, Ren, 1983- author.

Title

The cry of the senses : listening to Latinx and Caribbean poetics / Ren Ellis Neyra.

Publisher

Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Dissident acts

Dissident acts.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-218) and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Ellis Neyra, Ren, 1983- The cry of the senses Durham : Duke University Press, 2020. 9781478012696 (DLC) 2020018210

Research Call Number

MWED 21-914