Thinking with an Accent

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Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice

Series: California Studies in Music, Sound, and Media

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Thinking with an Accent explores the concept of accent as a rich, interdisciplinary mode of perception that shapes how we look, listen, act, read, and think. This collection brings together scholars from media, literature, education, law, language, and sound studies to examine accent not just as identity but as a powerful mediator of global economies, discrimination, and desire. It invites readers to engage in a dialogical and multimodal inquiry that uncovers new ways of knowing, acting, and caring.
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Ideal for scholars and students in media, literature, education, law, linguistics, and sound studies interested in the intersections of language, identity, and power, as well as readers curious about the cultural and political dimensions of accent.

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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 theorise 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 practise a dialogical and multimodal inquiry that can yield transformative modalities of knowledge, action, and care.

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Described as a showcase of interdisciplinarity, this collection fosters epistemological solidarities through what the authors call 'interdisciplinary accent studies'. It encourages reflection on global Anglophone, world, and comparative literature, as well as sound and accent studies, highlighting accented reading and writing as sites of disruption and potential.

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ISBN: 9780520389731

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 February 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 9 color figures and 4 tables

Contributors:

Edited by Pooja Rangan
Edited by Akshya Saxena
Edited by Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan
Edited by Pavitra Sundar
Foreword by John Baugh

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 544g

Pages: 334

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Non-Fiction Series: California Studies in Music, Sound, and Media

About the Author

Pooja Rangan is Associate Professor of English and Film and Media Studies at Amherst College and author of Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary.

Akshya Saxena is Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University and author of Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India.

Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan is Assistant Professor of English at Rice University.

Pavitra Sundar is Associate Professor of Literature at Hamilton College and author of Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema.

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