... Surrealism Nuyorican Poets Café Yoruba spoken word performance art ...

... and decolonizing value of languages in their written, spoken, and sung forms. indigeneity autonomy language decolonization ...

... of the episodic stories of escape in necessarily sonic and spoken repetitions. Reagon’s opera shows a version of escape that demands togetherness, uncomfortable coalition, and the destruction of the figure of the human as the only method of survival. care coalition Octavia Butler Toshi Reagon ...

... that is no mere simulation, since it imagines, invents, and actualizes the changes that are spoken through it. Occupy movement social movements possibility potentiality speech-acts ...

... The afterword discusses the concept of “knowing by ear,” the performative capacities of voice, and how sound archives transfer different takes on colonial history. Arguing that the Lautarchiv in Berlin, despite growing attention, is still a sequestered space, the author suggests that its spoken...

... We have long spoken about the uses of literature. However, this chapter for the first time speaks about the uselessness of literature, or sahitya . True to the spirit of the across in the book and Ghosh’s (in)fusion approach, this chapter explains what it means to see uselessness as a nonevent...

... blackness becomes the symbol, par excellence, for the less-than-human being condemned to death, the chapter tracks how those deaths are imagined, spoken, and written about, and the ways that the conditions that produce Black death are not ameliorated. The chapter, though, also examines Black optics and ways...

... displaced. Conceptualizing this irretrievability as aphasia— a condition in which words become irretrievable to speakers to the point that it becomes difficult to comprehend what is seen and spoken—is an effort to address when some “abnormality or failure” signals a breakdown in conduct and when...

... Throughout this book, I have spoken primarily of trans poetics as a place where making happens. I have aligned it with edges and cracks, undercommons and underflows, the behind and the beneath. But trans poetics is also a movement, a way of moving in relation to what already moves...

... striking and consistent use of aural imagery, evoking a soundscape through references to noise, music, communication and sound reproduction technologies, and spoken language. Music and sound serve as more than atmospheric detail in these novels; they propel the stories and serve as the ground on which...

... This chapters begins with an analysis of how Saussure’s linguistic discovery that the basic elements of spoken language are not sounds per se but rather phonemes: abstract, differential units within a structure. Moving from this fundamental tenet of structural linguistics, it shows how language...

... Frankenstein” enacts speaking rather than being spoken to or of, crafting moves in a rigged discursive game, and venting the surplus feelings having to do all that work generates. With the hindsight of twenty years, “My Words to Victor Frankenstein” is not only situated in multiple existing language games...

... in Griffith’s archive, shedding light on the surrealist nature of the artists’ work. Surrealism Nuyorican Poets Café Yoruba spoken word performance art ...

... is invariably spoken about as always already inferior to all male singers. The chapter comments on the contrast between working-class musical aesthetics and practices and the overwhelmingly bourgeois sense of taste that has ruled accounts of pop music. Ernestina Reyes Operation Bootstrap migration...

... of indirect victims whose relatives had been killed at S-21, the civil party lawyers made it clear that they thought that Duch, even though he had spoken quite frequently, was not telling the full truth, only what there was already documentary evidence proving. civil party participation victim...

... is spoken. Along with Strathern, the author seeks to escape nature/culture divides. Inspired by Strathern, the author follows lekker around merographically—that is, along iterative trails and between sites and situations that are connected, but only partially so. In homage to Strathern, finally, the author...