id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_5prw3c3hanbzxe6raff3vcpiom Paul Youngquist The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics by Louis Chude-Sokei 2018 4 .pdf application/pdf 1575 105 63 The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics by Louis Chude-Sokei (review) The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics. The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics. You'd be following the secret agenda Louis Chude-Sokei advances in The Sound of the way race works both to differentiate black people from the norm of the (white) with flashes of brilliance, by using the science fiction to challenge cultural stereotypes by way of the future they presume. Chude-Sokei wants a blackness open to continuing transformation: "necessarily cultural association between blacks and machines. Chude-Sokei establishes that, culturally speaking, blacks could pass for powerful instance of the assimilation of machines and blacks, a cultural fantasy that Chude-Sokei shows how the nineteenth-century writing he calls "Victorian protoscience fiction" advances this association to the point of inevitability. ChudeSokei's lesson: when you see "machine" in science fiction, read "black." That's where Chude-Sokei's weapon comes in, black ./cache/work_5prw3c3hanbzxe6raff3vcpiom.pdf ./txt/work_5prw3c3hanbzxe6raff3vcpiom.txt