Acoustic Colonialism

“Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante provides a radical critique of how to study indigeneity and sound, and their relation to literary and media history. With an approach that draws on Native American and Indigenous scholars from the North and South, he demonstrates the need to consider Indigenous scholarship as central to the interpretation of sound and voices in a settler colonial context while offering transformational readings of the Mapuche literary and media cultures Acoustic Colonialism is a crucial book.” - Ana María Ochoa Gautier, author of Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia

“In this stunning book Cárcamo-Huechante makes audible the complex waves of centuries-long colonialisms affecting Mapuche Peoples and places and the consequent rise of Indigenous movements for autonomy across the sounded territories of poetry, radio, and music. By centering the rich particularities of Mapuche Peoples and the concept of allkütun (to listen attentively), Acoustic Colonialism offers capacious accounts of sonic forms of resurgence that resonate with Indigenous Peoples elsewhere working towards liberation.”