"Lexicon of the Mouth" surveys the oral cavity as the central
channel by which self and surrounding are brought into relation.
Questions of embodiment and agency, attachment and loss,
incorporation and hunger, locution and the non-sensical are
critically examined. In doing so, LaBelle emphasizes the mouth as a
vital conduit for negotiating "the foundational narrative of proper
speech." "Lexicon of the Mouth" aims for a viscous, poetic and
resonant discourse of subjectivity, detailed through the
"micro-oralities" of laughing and whispering, stuttering and
reciting, eating and kissing, among others. The oral cavity is
posed as an impressionable arena, susceptible to all types of
material input, contamination and intervention, while also enabling
powerful forms of resistance, attachment and conversation, as well
as radical imagination."Lexicon of the Mouth" argues for the
revolutionary promise of the laugh, the spirited mythologies of the
whisper, the schizophonics of self-talk, and the primal noise of
gibberish, suggesting that the significance of voicing is
fundamentally bound to the exertions of the mouth. Subsequently,
assumptions around voice and vocality are unsettled in favor of an
epistemology of the oral, highlighting the acts of the tongue, the
lips and the throat as primary mediations between interior and
exterior, social structures and embodied expressions. LaBelle makes
a significant contribution to currents in sound and voice studies
by reminding that to hear the voice, and to consider a politics of
speech, is first and foremost to assume the mouth.
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