Sound-Blind: American Literature and the Politics of Transcription Benson Alex
Sound-Blind: American Literature and the Politics of Transcription Benson Alex In the 1880s, a new medical term flashed briefly into public awareness in the United States. In this fascinating work of…
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Sound-Blind: American Literature and the Politics of Transcription Benson Alex
In the 1880s, a new medical term flashed briefly into public awareness in the United States. In this fascinating work of literary and cultural history, Alex Benson takes the concept as an opening onto other stories of listening, writing, and power--stories that expand our sense of how a syllable, a word, a gesture, or a song can be put into print, and why it matters.Benson interweaves ethnographies, memoirs, local-color stories, modernist novels, silent film scripts, and more. Children who had trouble distinguishing between similar speech sounds were said to suffer from "sound-blindness." The term is now best remembered through anthropologist Franz Boas, whose work deeply influenced the way we talk about cultural difference.
Oskison, Helen Keller, W. E. B. Taken together, these seemingly disparate texts--by writers including John M. Du Bois, F.
Scott Fitzgerald, and Elsie
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