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Harrison, Katherine Cora.

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Tales twice told: Sound technology and American fiction after 1940.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Tales twice told: Sound technology and American fiction after 1940./
Author:	Harrison, Katherine Cora.
Description:	187 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-07, Section: A, page: 2459.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-07A.
Subject:	Literature, Modern. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3415019
ISBN:	9781124089287

Tales twice told: Sound technology and American fiction after 1940.
Harrison, Katherine Cora.

Tales twice told: Sound technology and American fiction after 1940. - 187 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-07, Section: A, page: 2459.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2010.

Before 1870, writing and performance were the only means of preserving, storing, and disseminating ephemeral voices. The advent of sound technologies---phonograph records, radio, LPs, tape, CDs, and mp3s---permanently alters the soundscape of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The ability to capture and share the sounds of music, news, and voices across vast distances enables new forms of community, from the national solidarity promoted by President Roosevelt's "fireside chats" to the blending of musical styles across the country and around the globe. Novelists in an era of media proliferation draw inspiration from new communications technologies, even as they defend the unique capacities of their craft. In particular, American authors consider how new soundscapes bring together white and black vernacular voices in ways that both challenge and uphold existing ideologies of race. Accompanying this investigation of racial identity is a parallel inquiry into the boundaries between humans and technology. The legacies of slavery and racial discrimination provide a foundation for a critique of how the category of the "human" arises, historically, out of the profit-driven need to associate black bodies with animals or machines. This critique develops among postwar American authors who engage themes of racial and technological hybridity in concert. Ralph Ellison and Carson McCullers, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) and William Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, and Toni Morrison all consider the stakes of the technologization of voices, and the unequal effects this process has for diverse audiences and artists. They write---and, in some cases, record---novels that counter the compromised potential of the mass media with versions of radically intersubjective characters and communities fostered through sound.

ISBN: 9781124089287Subjects--Topical Terms:

624011
Literature, Modern.

Tales twice told: Sound technology and American fiction after 1940.
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