Sounding Death, Saying Something
This essay considers what it means to speak into an absence. In particular, the author thinks about a series of recordings from the 1960s in which Inuit in Arctic Canada send messages to their relatives in tuberculosis sanatoria in southern Canada. The dislocation such separation caused was severe....
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fthighwire:oai:open-archive.highwire.org:ddst:35/1_130/59 2023-05-15T15:02:27+02:00 Sounding Death, Saying Something Stevenson, Lisa 2017-01-01 00:00:00.0 text/html http://socialtext.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/35/1_130/59 https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3727996 en eng Duke University Press http://socialtext.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/35/1_130/59 http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3727996 Copyright (C) 2017 Article TEXT 2017 fthighwire https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3727996 2018-04-07T06:26:45Z This essay considers what it means to speak into an absence. In particular, the author thinks about a series of recordings from the 1960s in which Inuit in Arctic Canada send messages to their relatives in tuberculosis sanatoria in southern Canada. The dislocation such separation caused was severe. Families who had never been apart were separated for years with little means of communication. Some Inuit died in the sanatoria. Family members had no way of knowing whether the absent were alive or dead. Many had a hard time finding words to speak into the recorder. Nonetheless, they lent their voices to the project. By juxtaposing these “soundings” with dreams Inuit youth have of their dead friends, the author thinks about the possibility of “sending” our voices to the absent/dead and the way they send their voices to us. Text Arctic inuit HighWire Press (Stanford University) Arctic Canada Lent ENVELOPE(-66.783,-66.783,-66.867,-66.867) Social Text 35 1 130 59 78 |
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This essay considers what it means to speak into an absence. In particular, the author thinks about a series of recordings from the 1960s in which Inuit in Arctic Canada send messages to their relatives in tuberculosis sanatoria in southern Canada. The dislocation such separation caused was severe. Families who had never been apart were separated for years with little means of communication. Some Inuit died in the sanatoria. Family members had no way of knowing whether the absent were alive or dead. Many had a hard time finding words to speak into the recorder. Nonetheless, they lent their voices to the project. By juxtaposing these “soundings” with dreams Inuit youth have of their dead friends, the author thinks about the possibility of “sending” our voices to the absent/dead and the way they send their voices to us. |
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