Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice

Thinking with an Accent casts accent as a powerfully coded yet underexplored mode of perception shaping our global cultural economy. Theorizing accent as a mediatized object, an interdisciplinary method, and an embodied practice, this volume invites readers to think with an accent to practice a dialogical, multisensorial inquiry that can yield transformative modalities of knowledge, action, and care. There is no such thing as a voice without an accent, yet theories of voice still treat accents as the exception. Thinking with an Accent teaches us how to begin from accented voices and provides a panoply of tools for imagining, working with, building on, analyzing, and desiring accents. JONATHAN STERNE, author of Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment This creative and ambitious collection encourages us to reconsider our own accented lives and how they structure our social, digital, and literary worlds. An essential book. DOLORES IN'S CASILLAS, author of Sounds of Belonging: U.S. Spanish-Language Radio and Public Advocacy This book teaches us that the accent must be understood not as an ontological reality but as a co-constituted happening. The result is that accent becomes something to think with, not just to study. Straightforward, well argued, and a pleasure to read.