How Long to Read Refiguring Speech

By Amy R. Wong

How Long Does it Take to Read Refiguring Speech?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 50 minutes to read Refiguring Speech by Amy R. Wong

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In this book, Amy R. Wong unravels the colonial and racial logic behind seemingly innocuous assumptions about "speech": that our words belong to us, and that self-possession is a virtue. Through readings of late-Victorian fictions of empire, Wong revisits the scene of speech's ideological foreclosures as articulated in postcolonial theory. Engaging Afro-Caribbean thinkers like Édouard Glissant and Sylvia Wynter, Refiguring Speech reroutes attention away from speech and toward an anticolonial poetics of talk, which emphasizes communal ownership and embeddedness within the social world and...

How long is Refiguring Speech?

Refiguring Speech by Amy R. Wong is 285 pages long, and a total of 72,675 words.

This makes it 96% the length of the average book. It also has 89% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Refiguring Speech Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 37 minutes to read Refiguring Speech aloud.

What Reading Level is Refiguring Speech?

Refiguring Speech is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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