dc.creator | Samuel, Petal Kimberly | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-24T11:51:24Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-09-29 | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-07-26 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/etd-07222016-124615 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15473 | |
dc.description.abstract | Timing to Descant examines the role of sound in tactics of colonial governance and strategies of Afro-Caribbean anticolonial resistance in the twentieth-century Anglophone Caribbean. British colonial authorities in the Anglophone Caribbean showed a marked interest in managing not just persons, labor, and space, but also the senses. Legislation guarding against “ noise” and “ nuisance,” and public discourses about the physical and psychological effects produced by exposure to noise became a vehicle for stigmatizing Afro-Caribbean social spaces, rituals, and uses of sound reproduction and amplification technologies (like the gramophone). However, after independence, many Anglophone Afro-Caribbean women writers, such as M. NourbeSe Philip, Erna Brodber, Michelle Cliff, and Paule Marshall, forwarded visions of a decolonized soundscape by valorizing unorthodox and occult forms of hearing and listening in their literatures. This project’s aim is twofold: 1) to elaborate how British colonial administrations used noise abatement legislation to cultivate a “ colonial ear”—a form of respectable sound perception that criminalized the Afro-Caribbean underclass, and 2) to demonstrate how Afro-Jamaican and Trinidadian women writers posed challenges to these attempts through literature with pronounced emphases on sound and hearing. | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.subject | anticolonial | |
dc.subject | noise | |
dc.subject | Caribbean | |
dc.subject | sound | |
dc.subject | women | |
dc.title | Timing to Descant: The Colonial Ear and Afro-Caribbean Women Writers' Decolonial Soundscapes | |
dc.type | dissertation | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Ifeoma Nwankwo | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Peter James Hudson | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Hortense Spillers | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Kathryn Schwarz | |
dc.type.material | text | |
thesis.degree.name | PHD | |
thesis.degree.level | dissertation | |
thesis.degree.discipline | English | |
thesis.degree.grantor | Vanderbilt University | |
local.embargo.terms | 2020-09-29 | |
local.embargo.lift | 2020-09-29 | |
dc.contributor.committeeChair | Colin Dayan | |