The mind is a strange and terrible vehicle
Fractured Time and Multidimensional Sound in No Name in the Street
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5246268 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carter Mathes (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 587-604 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African American Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1062-4783 • E-ISSN: 1945-6182 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/afa.2013.0090 |
| OpenAlex | W2265646535 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
In this essay I examine the presence of sound as a means of expanding the literary and political dimensions of James Baldwin's 1972 text, No Name in the Street . I argue that Baldwin extends his ideas of blues aesthetics as a window into black political consciousness, and that he more broadly attends to the acoustic qualities of his prose in an effort to critically diagnose a darkening post-civil rights reality marking the late 1960s and early '70s
Acoustics · Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Blues · Consciousness · Epistemology · Literature · Political science · Politics · French Literature and Poetry · History · Law · Modern American Literature Studies · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism
| Highly cited | No |
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