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....
Published in: | Social Text |
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Language: | English |
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Duke University Press
2017
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Online Access: | http://socialtext.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/35/1_130/59 https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3727996 |