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Radio Sound and Auditory Nostalgia in Toni Morrison’s Love
LI Ming-jiao
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2024.06.003
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies; Guangzhou Xinhua University, Guangzhou, China
Radio sound is a key signal sound in Toni Morrison’s 2003 novel Love. The intertwining of memories and radio music constitutes an intriguing window on how radio sound serves as a vehicle for exploring the cultural and historical implications of African American women’s listening experiences with home radio, as is presented by Toni Morrison in her first new millennium novel Love. Far from a simple sonic link with the larger external world, radio sound in is a primary means for individual nostalgia, collective memory, and expression of auditory aesthetics. It is a mechanical sound which conveys a particular “black restorative nostalgia.”
radio, nostalgia, memory, auditory aesthetic
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, June 2024, Vol. 14, No. 6, 410-414
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