Accented Speech in Literature, Art, and Theory
Melodramas of the Foreign Tongue
Series: Languages and Culture in History; 16;
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Product details:
- Publisher Amsterdam University Press
- Date of Publication 16 July 2025
- ISBN 9789048569007
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages216 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 478 g
- Language English 687
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Long description:
In our globalized world, a unique type of intercultural encounter has emerged: that between the speaking body and the foreign language. From Vladimir Nabokov and Maxine Hong Kingston to Yoko Tawada, writers have vividly captured the tensions and possibilities of this encounter?where tongues are ?murderous? and words become feasts. Accented Speech in Literature, Art, and Theory offers an analysis of speaking, writing, and performing with an accented non-native tongue. Through an evocative blend of theoretical rigor and literary sensibility, Tingting Hui spotlights the ?melodrama? of accented speech?a performance that exposes the bodily nature of language, bridging the erotic and the vulnerable, the audible and the visual. By rethinking accented voices as critical figures of resistance and creativity, this book invites readers to embrace the symphony of sounds that challenge norms and unsettle hierarchies. A richly textured journey, it celebrates the accent as a site of desire, vulnerability, and creativity.
?This is the most exciting, lively, intelligent book I have read in a long time.?
? Mieke Bal, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam
Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Return of the Speaking Body
1 Accented Speech Acts
2 Audiovisual Counterpoint
3 From the Buccal Tribunal to the Buccal Theater
4 Onomatopoeic Translation
5 The Little Girl, the Schizophrenic, and the Exophonic
Conclusion: For the Love of Literature
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