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Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice
AuthorsEdited by Pooja Rangan, Akshya Saxena, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, and Pavitra Sundar
LanguageEnglish
SeriesCalifornia Studies in Music, Sound, and Media
SubjectInterdisciplinary studies, media, linguistics, cultural theory
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherUniversity of California Press
Publication date
February 2023
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint, eBook
Pages334
ISBN9780520389731

Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice is an interdisciplinary academic book published in February 2023 by the University of California Press. Edited by Pooja Rangan, Akshya Saxena, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, and Pavitra Sundar, the book examines the concept of accent as a mode of perception that encompasses looking, listening, acting, reading, and thinking.[1][2][3]

Contributors

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  • Pooja Rangan: Associate Professor of English and Film and Media Studies at Amherst College and author of Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary.
  • Akshya Saxena: Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University and author of Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India.
  • Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan: Assistant Professor of English at Rice University.
  • Pavitra Sundar: Associate Professor of Literature at Hamilton College and author of Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema.