5. Black Atlantic Acoustemologies and the Maritime Archive

Autor: Skeehan, Danielle
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Popis: [S] ince speech was forbidden, slaves camouflaged the word under the provocative intensity of the scream. No one could translate the meaning of what seemed to be nothing but a shout. It was taken to be nothing but the call of a wild animal. This is how dispossessed man organized his speech by weaving it into the apparently meaningless texture of extreme noise.— Édouard Glissant, Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays In Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno — a fictionalized retelling of events that ...
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Abstrakt:[S] ince speech was forbidden, slaves camouflaged the word under the provocative intensity of the scream. No one could translate the meaning of what seemed to be nothing but a shout. It was taken to be nothing but the call of a wild animal. This is how dispossessed man organized his speech by weaving it into the apparently meaningless texture of extreme noise.— Édouard Glissant, Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays In Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno — a fictionalized retelling of events that ...