Title
Elliptical Sound: Audibility and the Space of Reading
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Informed by post-modern scholarship on narrative and voice, the author launches her intentions with the statement that "(m)odernist literary production bore witness to new forms and spaces of interracial encounter, most palpable in the acoustical spaces in which voices, sounds and bodies touch." The essay explicates a scene from The Sun Also Rises to discuss aspects of racial identification in relation to works by Jean Toomer and Ralph Ellison.
Published in
Sounding Modernism: Rhythm and Sonic Mediation in Modern Literature and Film
Date
2017
Pages
109-129
COinS
Citation
Napolin, Julie Beth. "Elliptical Sound: Audibility and the Space of Reading." In Sounding Modernism: Rhythm and Sonic Mediation in Modern Literature and Film, edited by Julian Murphet, Helen Groth, and Penelope Hone, 109-29. Edinburgh: Edinburg UP, 2017.