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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Published in:Social Text
Main Author: Stevenson, Lisa
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 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