Reading Olaudah Aloud: Elocution, the Commodity-Form, and Transverse Culture

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Ordinary Oralities: Introduction 1
4. I
5. Becoming Kuniong: Vocal Encounter and Female Missionary Work in Gutian, China (1893–1895) 17
6. “Good evening, you hag”: Verbalizing Unhappy Marriages in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam 31
7. Sounding Sex: Erotic Oralities in the Late-Nineteenth-Century Archive 49
8. George Catlin’s Shut Your Mouth, the Biopolitics of Voice, and the Problem of the “Stuttering Indian” 65
9. II
10. Reading Olaudah Aloud: Elocution, the Commodity-Form, and Transverse Culture 81
11. Traces of the Ordinary: The Guthrie Brothers and the Voices of Victorian “Nobodies” 99
12. A Shifting Swarm of Vocalities: An Assemblage Approach to PA Systems and Morning Assemblies in Finnish Primary Schools (1930s–1980s) 113
13. III
14. Performing Waulking Songs as an Emotional Practice in Gaelic Scotland 133
15. Voicing Imperial Order, Identity, and Resistance: The Singing of British Child Migrants 153
16. The Speechless Patient: Charcot’s Diagnostic Interpretation of Vocal, Gestural, and Written Expressions in Hysterical Mutism 171
17. Afterword
18. Speak, Shout, Beseech – Making History in the Streets of the Eighteenth Century: Afterword 189
19. Contributors 199
20. Index 201