Cry of the Senses
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2022 LASA book award winners
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2022 Latinx Studies Section’s Outstanding Book Award Winner
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Author_Ren Ellis Neyra
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Product details
- ISBN 9781478011170
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Dec 2020
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In The Cry of the Senses, Ren Ellis Neyra examines the imaginative possibility for sound and poetics to foster new modes of sensorial solidarity in the Caribbean Americas. Weaving together the black radical tradition with Caribbean and Latinx performance, cinema, music, and literature, Ellis Neyra highlights the ways Latinx and Caribbean sonic practices challenge antiblack, colonial, post-Enlightenment, and humanist epistemologies. They locate and address the sonic in its myriad manifestations-across genres and forms, in a legal trial, and in the art and writing of Xandra Ibarra, the Fania All-Stars, Beatriz Santiago MuÑoz, Édouard Glissant, and Eduardo Corral-while demonstrating how it operates as a raucous form of diasporic dissent and connectivity. Throughout, Ellis Neyra emphasizes Caribbean and Latinx sensorial practices while attuning readers to the many forms of blackness and queerness. Tracking the sonic through their method of multisensorial, poetic listening, Ellis Neyra shows how attending to the senses can inspire alternate, ethical ways of collective listening and being.
Ren Ellis Neyra is Assistant Professor of English at Wesleyan University and author of Meteor Shower/DÍas sin Shower.
