Quiet Zone
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A Quiet Place.
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Acoustic Respectability
African Diaspora
Afro-Caribbean
Anglophone Caribbean
Archival Sources
Aural Privacy
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Black Dispossession
Black Expression
Black Studies
Campaigns
Caribbean Expressive Culture
Caribbean Studies
Caribbean Women Writers
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civilizational belonging
Colonial Period
Colonial Sensorium
Contemporary Laws
Creative Media
Enforcement of Quiet
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Feminist Aesthetics of Disturbance
forthcoming
gender
Imperialism
In Praise of Volume
Interdisciplinary Contribution
national
Noise as Expression
Petal Samuel
Private School
Queer Writers
Quiet as Policing
race
Repression
Resonance
Sonic Etiquette
Sound Studies
Stigmatization of Noise
Subtlety
Surveillance
The Quiet Zone
Ultrasound
Vibration
Product details
- ISBN 9781978844711
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2026
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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A serene beach. The classroom of an elite private school. The still nights in an upscale residential neighborhood. An acclaimed poet with a quiet, dignified mode of address. The sonic etiquette and experience of quiet is integral to each of these scenes. The Quiet Zone examines what the emergence of quiet as an elite aesthetic, privilege, and entitlement means for minoritized people who are often narrated as loud, disruptive, and disturbing, sonically, visually, and otherwise. Taking the Caribbean and its diasporas as its key sites of study, the book explores what we can learn from efforts to transform the region into the quintessential site of quiet leisure, in part, through the enactment of regimes of sonic discipline and surveillance directed against its majority Black population. Analyzing the work of Afro-Caribbean artists that catalog and critique sonic surveillance, the book questions the ways that quiet gets produced both as a regulatory ideal of racial, gender, sexual, national, and civilizational belonging and as a universal object of desire
PETAL KIMBERLY SAMUEL is assistant professor of African, African American and Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her work on African diasporic women’s writing, Caribbean feminist and queer literary aesthetics, and Black speculative imagination has appeared in the Journal of West Indian Literature, The Black Scholar, Differences, and Public Books. Her current work and scholarly interests include Caribbean anticolonial literature and aesthetics, the sensorium, and transnational Black feminist thought.
