{"product_id":"race-sounds-the-art-of-listening-in-african-american-literature-new-american-canon-9781609385613","title":"Race Sounds: The Art of Listening in African American Literature (New American Canon)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe live in a world of talk. Yet Race Sounds argues that we need to listen morenot just hear things  but actively listenparticularly in relation to how we engage race  gender  and class differences. Forging new ideas about the relationship between race and sound  Furlonge explores how black artistsincluding well-known figures such as writers Ralph Ellison and Zora Neale Hurston  and singers Bettye LaVette and Aretha Franklin  among othersimagine listening. Drawing from a multimedia archive  Furlonge examines how many of the texts call on readers to listen in print. In the process  she gives us a new way to read and interpret these canonical  aurally inflected texts  and demonstrates how listening allows us to engage with the sonic lives of difference as readers  thinkers  and citizens. Intervening in discourses of African American and black feminist literatures  where sound and voice dominate  Furlonge shifts our attention to listening as an aural strategy of cultural  social  and civic engagement that not only enlivens how we read  write  and critique texts  but also informs how we might be more effective audiences for each other and against injustice in our midst. The result is a fascinating examination that brings new insights to African American literature and art  American literature  democratic philosophy  and sound studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646900559925,"sku":"ByrdShop_1609385616","price":38.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781609385613.jpg?v=1781680897","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/race-sounds-the-art-of-listening-in-african-american-literature-new-american-canon-9781609385613","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}