{"product_id":"the-sound-of-culture-louis-chude-sokei-9780819575777","title":"The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInvestigates the parallel and intertwined histories of race, technology, and science fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Sound of Culture explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and moving through to the twenty-first, the book argues for the dependent nature of those histories. Looking at American, British, and Caribbean literature, it distills a diverse range of subject matter: minstrelsy, Victorian science fiction, cybertheory, and artificial intelligence. All of these facets, according to Louis Chude-Sokei, are part of a history in which music has been central to the equation that links blacks and machines. As Chude-Sokei shows, science fiction itself has roots in racial anxieties and he traces those anxieties across two centuries and a range of writers and thinkers--from Samuel Butler, Herman Melville, and Edgar Rice Burroughs to Sigmund Freud, William Gibson, and Donna Haraway, to Norbert Weiner, Sylvia Wynter, and Samuel R. Delany.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Louis Chude-Sokei\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0819575771\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819575777\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/29\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Louis Chude-Sokei","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44044545949951,"sku":"9780819575777","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1e080d7c-5df4-450e-b63e-86fb103bbc54.jpg?v=1684973476","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-sound-of-culture-louis-chude-sokei-9780819575777","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}