Abstract
In her article Hearing Cry in Black Diasporic and Latina/o Poetics Rachel Ellis Neyra expands upon Edouard Glissant's notion of the cry of and shows how to listen for it in literary arrangement of Derek Walcott, Piri Thomas, Pedro Pietri, Ralph Ellison, Miguel Algarin, and James Baldwin. Ellis Neyra also reads musical lyrics by Oscar D'Leon and Billie Holiday and melodic nuances of salsa, jazz, blues, and bomba for how they sound out what she calls New World Cry, a mnemonic figure of Plantation of Americas and a metaphor for how estrangement can conjoin desires of (im)migrant and diasporic peoples. In doing so, Ellis Neyra shows that modernity is constituted by aurally sensible, visible, and legible forms which emerged from plantation and that slavery's breakdown in Americas did not mark plantation's erasure, but fermented remainders which carried out its tropological and physical exportation and re-presentation elsewhere
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