Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance - Couverture souple

La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0472054279 ISBN 13 : 9780472054275

Editeur : The University of Michigan Press, 2021

Synopsis

In Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of Communication, Joshua St. Pierre flips the script on communication disability, positioning the unruly, disabled speaker at the center of analysis to challenge the belief that more communication is unquestionably good. Working with Gilles Deleuze’s suggestion that “[w]e don’t suffer these days from any lack of communication, but rather from all the forces making us say things when we’ve nothing much to say,” St. Pierre brings together the unlikely trio of the dysfluent speaker, the talking head, and the troll to show how speech is made cheap—and produced and repaired within human bodies—to meet the inhuman needs of capital. The book explores how technologies, like social media and the field of speech-language pathology, create smooth sites of contact that are exclusionary for disabled speakers and looks to the political possibilities of disabled voices to “de-face” the power of speech now entwined with capital.

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À propos de l'auteur

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes is Professor of American Culture, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Women's and Gender Studies, University of Michigan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Michigan Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0472054279
• ISBN 13: 9780472054275
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 350
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible