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The sound of culture : diaspora and black technopoetics / Louis Chude-Sokei.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, 2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780819575784
  • 081957578X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sound of cultureDDC classification:
  • 809/.8896 23
LOC classification:
  • PN841 .C47 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; THE SOUND OF CULTURE; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE Modernism's Black Mechanics; Of Minstrels and Machines: Tales of the Racial Uncanny; Karel Čapek's Black Myth; Prognosticating Echoes: Race, Sound, and Naturalizing Technology; TWO Humanizing the Machine; Masters, Slaves, and Machines: Race and Victorian Science Fiction; Melville's Man-Machine; Erewhon: Lost Races and Mechanical Souls; THREE Creolization and Technopoetics; Sexing Robots, Creolizing Technology; Cyberpunk's Dubwise Ontology.
The Music of Living Machinescapes: Creolization and Artificial IntelligenceFOUR A Caribbean Pre-Posthumanism; Echolocating Surrealism; Sylvia Wynter's Naked Declivity; Caliban's Uncanny Valley; Appendix: A Playlist; Notes; Bibliography; Index; ABOUT THE AUTHOR.
Summary: Investigates the parallel and intertwined histories of race, technology, and science fiction.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover; THE SOUND OF CULTURE; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE Modernism's Black Mechanics; Of Minstrels and Machines: Tales of the Racial Uncanny; Karel Čapek's Black Myth; Prognosticating Echoes: Race, Sound, and Naturalizing Technology; TWO Humanizing the Machine; Masters, Slaves, and Machines: Race and Victorian Science Fiction; Melville's Man-Machine; Erewhon: Lost Races and Mechanical Souls; THREE Creolization and Technopoetics; Sexing Robots, Creolizing Technology; Cyberpunk's Dubwise Ontology.

The Music of Living Machinescapes: Creolization and Artificial IntelligenceFOUR A Caribbean Pre-Posthumanism; Echolocating Surrealism; Sylvia Wynter's Naked Declivity; Caliban's Uncanny Valley; Appendix: A Playlist; Notes; Bibliography; Index; ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

Investigates the parallel and intertwined histories of race, technology, and science fiction.

English.

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