George Catlin’s Shut Your Mouth: The Biopolitics of Voice, and the Problem of the “Stuttering Indian”

The stutter persists as an unwanted excrescence in most cultural or critical/theoretical accounts of the voice, and sometimes even the most rigorous scholarly approaches still rely on powerful assumptions that link voices to personal or collective agency.

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111079370-005/html

Country

Canada

Publisher

De Gruyter

Source

Ordinary Oralities, Edited by Josephine Hoegaerts and Janice Schroeder

Volume

Page

65-79

Martin, Daniel. “George Catlin’s Shut Your Mouth, the Biopolitics of Voice, and the Problem of the ‘Stuttering Indian.’” Ordinary Oralities, edited by Josephine Hoegaerts and Janice Schroede, De Gruyter, 2023, pp. 65-79, https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111079370-005/html

Excerpt: Daniel Martin