Hear Me Out: Remediating Bodies through Digital Voices
| dc.contributor.advisor | Gopal, Sangita | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pang, Aidan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-10-04T19:47:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-10-04T19:47:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-10-04 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This dissertation examines the issue of vocal “ability” where “passing”—as male, as white, as straight, or as abled—is a site of daily conflict for many people whose voices belie their marginalized identities. This disparity between what the body looks like and what the body sounds like reveals itself in representations of the human in popular media, resulting in underexamined cases where what we hear can change the way we conceptualize bodies and their subjectivities. More often than not, equity and inclusion in sound is often underprioritized in contrast to the visual. This focus on visibility is rooted in a larger epistemic tradition in western society that privileges sight above all other senses to make sense of the world around us, including what or who constitutes as “human.” But unlike the physical body, the voice offers plasticity in subjectivity because of its visual formlessness, ephemerality, and its ability to transcend visual barriers. The voice reveals ways of being that the state’s institutions seek to suppress and discipline. My contribution on the voice attempts to fill in this gap of knowledge on the body in the context of East Asia, specifically Japan, by examining how its approach to the voice resulted in a booming cultural industry where its vocal productions challenge longstanding western narratives of the body. I argue these voicescapes offer a revisionary potential in subject formation that changes the way we define the human, especially in a postcolonial and increasingly posthuman world. By focusing on how the voice is used to remediate bodily subjectivity, it reveals tensions by which we can address institutional and sociocultural representations in future renderings of the human. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/27638 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | |
| dc.rights | All Rights Reserved. | |
| dc.subject | Disability | en_US |
| dc.subject | Embodiment | en_US |
| dc.subject | Gender | en_US |
| dc.subject | Japan | en_US |
| dc.subject | Postcolonialism | en_US |
| dc.subject | Voice | en_US |
| dc.title | Hear Me Out: Remediating Bodies through Digital Voices | |
| dc.type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Department of English | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Oregon | |
| thesis.degree.level | doctoral | |
| thesis.degree.name | Ph.D. |
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