Voces que cuentan. Materialidades da voz na narrativa e poesia Latino-Americanas
Edited by Adriana Lopez-Labourdette and Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira
During the planning stage of the international conference Voices that Matter’, we asked ourselves how we could bring hearing to the fore rather than sight. The reality of the pandemic forced us to hold the conference virtually. We toyed with the idea of turning off the cameras and simply listening, even going so far as to make the image of each speaker disappear whilst they were speaking. Certain automatic assumptions prevented us from doing so. The textual nature imposed by a journal of academic essays once again compelled us to set the voice aside, to remain within the ReVista. Through her writing, however, Adriana Caverero shows us a minority path, yet a forceful one. Where the history of communication is the history of the de-vocalisation of the logos, the history of the delegitimisation of the body, of the denial of other forms of knowledge, of song, of the shout or the whisper, let us re-vocalise, let us propose a return to vocality. This is our proposal: to reclaim the voice, the phonic, the choral: ReVocalise!