Sounding Harlem: Ann Petry’s The Street and the Experience of “Dwelling”

The essay focuses on the thematic coming into being of a place mapped through practices of listening. Sound, noise, and music are seen as part of the racially informed urban “everyday.” The reading depends on the isovist narration of (1946) by Ann Petry, documenting Harlem during the 1940s. The text...

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Published in:	American, British, and Canadian studies Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 69 - 83
Main Author:	Yeldho, Joe Varghese
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Sciendo 01-06-2020
Subjects:	architecture aurality dwelling inequity listening materiality phenomenology race
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