Thinking with an accent : toward a new object, method, and practice / edited by Pooja Rangan, Akshya Saxena, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, and Pavitra Sundar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rangan, Pooja, 1984-

Saxena, Akshya, 1986-

Srinivasan, Ragini Tharoor.

Sundar, Pavitra.

Series:

California studies in music, sound, and media.

California studies in music, sound, and media

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Accents and accentuation.

English language--Pronunciation by foreign speakers.

English language.

English language--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 310 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2023.

Summary:

"Thinking with an Accent brings together leading and emerging scholars of media, literature, education, law, linguistics, sound, and politics to theorize accent as an understudied lynchpin of the global cultural economy. It reframes accent as a powerfully coded and yet unexplored mode of perception - one that, properly harnessed, can yield transformative modalities of knowledge, action, and care. Accent, this anthology shows, does more than denote geographic, ethnic, or social identity. Accent emerges through listening, mobilizes negotiations of power, and enacts desiring relations. To think with an accent is to practice a dialogical and multimodal inquiry that unfolds the tensions of address within mediated utterances"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : thinking with an accent / Pooja Rangan, Akshya Saxena, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, and Pavitra Sundar

Part one Accent as expertise

1. Taking accents beyond identity politics? thinking through two paradigms / Rey Chow

2. Accent reduction as raciolinguistic pedagogy / Vijay A. Ramjattan

3. From "handicap" to crip curb cut : thinking accent with disability / Pooja Rangan

4. Accented Latinx textese : bilingual scriptural economies and digital literacies / Sara Veronica Hinojos

5. Everything is accented : labor and the weight of things unsaid / Anita Starosta

Part two Accented perception

6. Is there a call center literature? / Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan

7. Re-writing algorithms for just recognition : from digital aural redlining to accent activism / Nina Sun Eidsheim

8. "Sorry Hard Understand Strong Accent!" (SHUSA!): racial dynamics of deaf scholars of color working with white female interpreters / Lynn Hou and Rezenet Moges

9. Accentings, acoustic surveillance, and political crisis in 2010s Brazil / Leonardo Cardoso

10. "The native ear" : accented testimonial desire and asylum / Michelle Pfeifer

Part three A desire called accent

11. Stereo accent : reading, writing, and xenophilic attunement / Akshya Saxena

12. Accenting the trans voice, echoing audio-dysphoria / Slava Greenberg

13. The demonstration of accent : media, manif, monstrosity / Naomi Waltham-Smith

14. What does it mean to "sound gay"? the (accented) voice as surplus jouissance / Ani Maitra

15. Listening with an accent - or how to loeribari / Pavitra Sundar

List of contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

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ISBN:

9780520389748 (electronic bk.)

0520389743

9780520389731 (pbk.)

OCLC:

1492639812