Black Flânerie, Non-White Soundscapes, and the Fantastic in Teju Cole’s Open City

dc.creatorMózes, Dorottya
dc.date2021-01-04
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-29T11:00:53Z
dc.date.available2021-06-29T11:00:53Z
dc.descriptionThis essay develops an alternative notion of Black flânerie, one that foregrounds the flâneur’s auditory experiences and practices in the city, explaining how sound patterns work as indexes of historical traumas such as slavery, colonialism, and indigenous dispossession. More specifically, it investigates how sound and space are connected and what these connections may reveal about acoustical and historical conditions of urban sites. Analyses advance readings of spaces as shadowed by sonic traces, echoes, afterlives, and memories, which point to the sedimentation of sound in geographic as well as psychic structures and ruptures and hence show how different soundscapes suggest different forms of relationality: alienation, rupture, intersection, connection, and transformation. Finally, it demonstrates how sound imagery—including music, dialects, noise, voices, and silence—functions to signal fantastic spaces and places, fantastic or speculative linkages in particular, and produces a version of the non-White fantastic. (DKM)
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dc.identifierhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/8688
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2437/318680
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherDebreceni Egyetemi Kiadó
dc.relationhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/8688/7892
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2021 Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.sourceHungarian Journal of English and American Studies; Vol. 26 No. 2 (2020)
dc.source2732-0421
dc.source1218-7364
dc.subjectflâneur
dc.subjectnon-White fantastic
dc.subjectsound studies
dc.subjecturban space
dc.subjectTeju Cole
dc.titleBlack Flânerie, Non-White Soundscapes, and the Fantastic in Teju Cole’s Open City
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.typePeer-reviewed Article
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