Description:
The Quiet Zone examines what the emergence of quiet as an elite aesthetic, privilege, and entitlement means for Afro-Caribbean people who are often narrated as loud, disruptive, and disturbing, sonically, visually, and otherwise. The book reveals the ways quiet operates as regulatory ideal of racial, gender, sexual, national, and civilizational belonging in the Caribbean and its diasporas.
Review Quotes:
"The Quiet Zone is a groundbreaking work of Black feminist criticism that redefines Caribbean soundscapes. With eloquence, rigor, and bold interdisciplinary insight, Petal Samuel reveals how Afro-Caribbean women and queer artists transform sonic disturbance into a powerful aesthetic of resistance, unsettling colonial fantasies and asserting radical forms of presence, creativity, and self-sovereignty."
--Kaiama L. Glover "professor of Black Studies at Yale University"