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Book SynopsisTrade Review“With extraordinary sensitivity, Carter Mathes explores the ways that sound plays a crucial role in African American literature as a means of indexing a space of thought. Imagine the Sound takes its place among the best recent scholarship, teaching us what it means to read in the wake of the Black Arts Movement.” —Brent Hayes Edwards, author of The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction: The Acoustics of Unfreedom
1. The Sonic Field of Resistance: Free Jazz and the Horizon of Black Aesthetic Expansion
2. Apocalyptic Soundscapes: Listening to Henry Dumas’s Short Fiction
3. Peering into the Maw: Larry Neal’s Aesthetic Universe
4. Sonic Futurity in Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters
5. The Radical Tonality of James Baldwin’s Post–Civil Rights Blues
Epilogue: Sounding the Long Civil Rights Moment
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
