Voice, Unhearability, and Epistemic Violence: The Making of a Sonic Identity

Philosophy & Rhetoric Dec 2023

Voice, Unhearability, and Epistemic Violence: The Making of a Sonic Identity

Alison Yeh Cheung California Polytechnic State University

Abstract

ABSTRACT This article suggests that Asian American rhetorics of sound destabilize representational politics by complicating the racialization of sonic difference. The author investigates the relationship between notions of Asian American citizenship and not-Blackness in vocal performance. By attending to sonic rhetorics through Awkwafina’s blaccent controversy, the article explores the condition of epistemic violence that position Asian American voices as “unhearable.”

Journal: Philosophy & Rhetoric
Published: 2023-12-31
DOI: 10.5325/philrhet.56.3-4.0357
Open Access: Closed
Topics: voice and style

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