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Thinking with an Accent

Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice Volume 3

Pooja Rangan 

(Editor)

Akshya Saxena 

(Editor)

Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan 

(Editor)

et al.

Pavitra Sundar 

(Editor)

John Baugh 

(Foreword by)

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Everyone speaks with an accent, but what is an accent? Thinking with an Accent introduces accent as a powerfully coded yet underexplored mode of perception that includes looking, listening, acting, reading, and thinking. This volume convenes scholars of media, literature, education, law, language, and sound to theorize accent as an object of inquiry, an interdisciplinary method, and an embodied practice. Accent does more than just denote identity: from algorithmic bias and corporate pedagogy to migratory poetics and the politics of comparison, accent mediates global economies of discrimination and desire. Accents happen between bodies and media. They negotiate power and invite attunement. These essays invite the reader to think with an accent--to practice a dialogical and multimodal inquiry that can yield transformative modalities of knowledge, action, and care.

Product Details

PublisherUniversity of California Press
Publish DateFebruary 21, 2023
Pages334
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9780520389731
Dimensions9.0 X 6.0 X 0.9 inches | 1.2 pounds

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"A guiding promise of this collection lies in its showcase of interdisciplinarity. Nourishing epistemological solidarities emerge in what the authors term 'interdisciplinary accent studies.' The authors prompt thinking around how future studies of global Anglophone literature, world literature, comparative literature, sound studies and accent studies are often in conversation. It is our own 'accented' reading and writing practices that ultimately silo accent and its disruptive potential."-- "ASAP/J"

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