{"product_id":"thinking-with-an-accent-toward-a-new-object-method-and-practice-volume-3-paperback","title":"Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice Volume 3 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePooja Rangan\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAkshya Saxena\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eRagini Tharoor Srinivasan\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Everyone speaks with an accent, but what is an accent? \u003ci\u003eThinking with an Accent\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is no such thing as a voice without an accent, yet theories of voice ranging from philosophy to media studies to machine learning still treat accents as the exception rather than the rule. \u003ci\u003eThinking with an Accent \u003c\/i\u003eteaches us how to begin from accented voices and provides a panoply of tools for imagining, working with, building on, analyzing, and desiring accents.--Jonathan Sterne, author of \u003ci\u003eDiminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eThinking with an Accent \u003c\/i\u003eis a creative and ambitious multidisciplinary collection of essays that clearly captures the academic and popular zeitgeist about race, listening, and power. Together, these essays advance our theoretical understandings of accent as methodology, accent as epistemology, and accent, in general, as a multifaceted cultural source of wealth. \u003ci\u003eThinking with an Accent \u003c\/i\u003eencourages scholars and the public alike to reconsider our own accented lives and how they work to structure our social, digital, and literary worlds. I already consider it to be an essential book.\"--Dolores Inés Casillas, author of \u003ci\u003eSounds of Belonging: U.S. Spanish-Language Radio and Public Advocacy\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This book teaches us that the accent must be understood not as an ontological reality but as a co-constituted happening between bodies, people, objects, and space. The result is that the reader learns to think freely about accent, and accent becomes something to think with, not just to study. Straightforward, well argued, and a pleasure to read.\"--Kareem Khubchandani, author of \u003ci\u003eIshtyle: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eAccenting Gay Indian Nightlife\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This is, without a doubt, a very timely study, given how accent increasingly intersects with migration policy, employment, culture, digital technologies, and (identity) politics. The chapters illustrate the complexities of accent, at both personal and structural levels, and testify to accent's role in negotiations of power and desire. The collection does very important work and is likely to set an important agenda for how accent is studied and taught in the future.\"--Jennifer O'Meara, author of \u003ci\u003eWomen's Voices in Digital Media: The Sonic \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eScreen from Film to Meme\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This work is fascinating and extremely valuable, brought to life through multiple case studies and contexts. The collection gives space to difference, alterity, intersectionality, and marginalization through nuanced thinking that also works to question and destabilize subject positions, labels, and constructs.\"--Tessa Dwyer, author of \u003ci\u003eSpeaking in Subtitles: Revaluing Screen Translation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePooja Rangan \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of English and Film and Media Studies at Amherst College and author of \u003ci\u003eImmediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAkshya Saxena\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University and author of \u003ci\u003eVernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRagini Tharoor Srinivasan\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of English at Rice University. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePavitra Sundar\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Literature at Hamilton College and author of\u003ci\u003e Listening with a \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eFeminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 334\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 21, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47443845054642,"sku":"9780520389731","price":62.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/ce1a90f35483880d1b1d0ee186afd0ff.webp?v=1778694568","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/thinking-with-an-accent-toward-a-new-object-method-and-practice-volume-3-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}