Corzon Cortez, Naira G
(2024)
El Lenguaje de las Cosas: El Sonido y la Voz en el Arte y Literatura de Bolivia (2000-2019).
Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
This dissertation delves into the work of five contemporary Bolivian artists and writers from the perspective of sound and voice. It specifically explores the continuity between the human and non-human through voice and sound. Focusing on cultural objects from 2000-2019, it examines works that accompany political processes in the era of Evo Morales and conflictive environmental policies in the era of the Anthropocene. The dissertation principally aims to inaugurate a methodology grounded in sound and voice studies that is attentive to Bolivia's fraught literacy history stemming from colonialism, as well as the region's profound cultural heterogeneity. Sound and voice as an epistemology could allow perceptions beyond those relegated by an ocularcentric perspective. They may also enable a less violent transition between orality and writing, by realizing that sound is a universal generator of meaning that transcends language and media. Sound allows for a radical continuity and an exploration of vibrational ontology (Goodman). The cultural products analyzed through a sonic perspective in this dissertation reveal the non-human voice in the work of Andres Bedoya, a utopia of coexistence in a radically heterogeneous environment in the work of Elysia Crampton, the fragmentation of reality through violent procedures of silencing and silence in the writings of Liliana Colanzi and Giovanna Rivero, as well as the absence and desensitization of the “Other’s” voice exposed by Ozzo Ukumari’s sonic-haptic sculptures.
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University of Pittsburgh ETD
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| Status: |
Unpublished |
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| Creators | Email | Pitt Username | ORCID  |
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| Corzon Cortez, Naira G | ngc9@pitt.edu | ngc9 | |
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| Date: |
10 January 2024 |
| Date Type: |
Publication |
| Defense Date: |
2022 |
| Approval Date: |
10 January 2024 |
| Submission Date: |
15 November 2023 |
| Access Restriction: |
No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately. |
| Number of Pages: |
215 |
| Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Schools and Programs: |
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > Hispanic Languages and Literatures |
| Degree: |
PhD - Doctor of Philosophy |
| Thesis Type: |
Doctoral Dissertation |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Voice, Sound, Bolivia, non-human, silence, Anthropocene |
| Date Deposited: |
10 Jan 2024 14:44 |
| Last Modified: |
10 Jan 2024 14:44 |
| URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/45538 |
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