Feminist phenomenological voices |
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Authors: | Linda Fisher |
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Institution: | (1) Central European University, Budapest, Hungary |
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Abstract: | A feminist phenomenological analysis of voice, rooted in both the feminist understanding of the role of voice in identity,
agency, and the creation of meaning, and the phenomenological thematization and theorization of phenomenal, lived experience,
leads to a deeper understanding of the importance of the materiality of the voices with which we speak, and their role in
both subjective and intersubjective experience. Starting from an analysis of the intertwined associations and imageries of
the feminine, voice, and embodiment, I discuss the denaturalization and abstraction of voice in standard narratives of voice
and voice metaphorization, and the corresponding forgetting of the living, bodily voice. In looking to recall a re-naturalized
and immanent corporeality and retrieve the material voice through an account of embodied vocality, I consider examples of
the power and immediacy of the corporeal voice in the female operatic voice, and in contrast, the compromised agency and attenuated
(inter)subjectivity which attends the impaired or lost physical voice. These vocal counterpoints of presence and absence are
often separated by corporeal disturbance or limitation, underscoring the importance of corporeality and the material voice
as intermediary between the individual and the social world. This sets the contours of a phenomenology of embodied voice and
vocality, holding implications for accounts of identity and intersubjectivity, gendered vocality and expressive agency, and
an intercorporeality mediated by the living material voice. |
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