...Supernatural Significations ...

... of meaning and identity as coherent and unitary, and they thereby open up the possibility for new forms of signification. Their performances assert a profound and complex connection between bodies, sensuality, and meaning. Fall on Your Knees also, however, situates the liberatory potential of improvised...

... and a chamber opera by Alba Triana. In part because no sounds are predetermined as sounds per se, sounds in these projects cannot maintain static definitions based on numerical values (such as 440 hertz) or significations (such as the note A). Instead, sound is an exchange that takes place during singing...

... This chapter looks at some of the specific ways that sound and vision interact in the cinematic medium. Film is often approached as essentially visual, with the role of sound devalued, ignored, or misapprehended. This happens in large part because certain effects, feelings, and significations...

... to meaning, representation, and signification within the humanities and social sciences. This chapter focuses on how affective intensities are registered in different bodies and, consequently, how they impact ways of making sense of the world, opening up spaces for thinking mutually conflicting meanings...

... of new Latin American cultural practices, as taken up by this U.S. population, places their oeuvres in a new regional context, navigating mass migrations, transnational communities, cultural alterations, and millennial transitions. This chapter frames broader Latined signification in Díaz’s work...

..., or misapprehended. This happens in large part because certain effects, feelings, and significations are attributed to the image and appear to emanate directly from the image when they are in fact produced by sounds. We project powers onto the cinematic image, clearly contained and framed in a way that sound...

... performances destabilize notions of meaning and identity as coherent and unitary, and they thereby open up the possibility for new forms of signification. Their performances assert a profound and complex connection between bodies, sensuality, and meaning. Fall on Your Knees also, however, situates...

..., transnational communities, cultural alterations, and millennial transitions. This chapter frames broader Latined signification in Díaz’s work as it resonates in the North’s Global South as well as the Global South’s peripheries, querying in what ways Díaz’s literary forms unsettle U.S.-based American and Latin...

... in cultural inquiry from the 1990s has partly been a reaction to the perceived dominance of questions connected to meaning, representation, and signification within the humanities and social sciences. This chapter focuses on how affective intensities are registered in different bodies and, consequently, how...