The Sound of Culture : Diaspora and Black Technopoetics
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| Title: | The Sound of Culture : Diaspora and Black Technopoetics |
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| Description: | The Sound of Culture explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and moving through to the twenty-first, the book argues for the dependent nature of those histories. Looking at American, British, and Caribbean literature, it distills a diverse range of subject matter: minstrelsy, Victorian science fiction, cybertheory, and artificial intelligence. All of these facets, according to Louis Chude-Sokei, are part of a history in which music has been central to the equation that links blacks and machines. As Chude-Sokei shows, science fiction itself has roots in racial anxieties and he traces those anxieties across two centuries and a range of writers and thinkers—from Samuel Butler, Herman Melville, and Edgar Rice Burroughs to Sigmund Freud, William Gibson, and Donna Haraway, to Norbert Weiner, Sylvia Wynter, and Samuel R. Delany. |
| Authors: | Louis Chude-Sokei |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Literature and technology, Literature--Black authors--History and criticism, Music and literature, Race in literature, African diaspora in literature |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
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