Emplaced sounding
Voice, identity and place in Zadie Smith's NW
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2406643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alex Halligey (0000-0002-3125-173X, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, University of Johannesburg with Supervision from the SARChI Chair in South African Art and Visual Culture, South Africa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 499-513 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Geographies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-4740 • E-ISSN: 1477-0881 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14744740221104485 |
| OpenAlex | W4282927802 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Through a close reading of Zadie Smith's portrayal of the character Keisha/Natalie's voice and relationship to voice in the novel NW, this article considers how people's speaking, sounding voices are both emplaced (coming from, made by place) and are key place-making acts. This paper argues for how analysing sound in literature might serve sonic geographic interest in the 'whole' voice, with all sound's representational and more-than representational elements. Through its fictional and poetic expressivity the literary offers propositional perspectives on experiences of sound and its material and affectual role in our world making. From this departure point, the paper proceeds to consider the entangled issues of place and identity politics in NW, motivating that a reading or 'listening' in terms of voice might offer valuable insights into these concerns. Attending to three moments in NW centred around the character Keisha/Natalie, the paper argues for how human's speaking voices might enact and contain the complex difficulties in the co-construction of place and personal identity
Acoustics · Active listening · Aesthetics · Art · Character (mathematics · Identity (music · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Sociology · Sound (geography · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Communication · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Philosophy · South African History and Culture
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |