Document Type
Honors Project - Open Access
Abstract
Despite podcasts’ rising popularity over the last twenty years, literary scholars are only beginning to focus on their affective potential as multimedia texts. In this thesis, I argue that even mainstream podcasts are productively intertwined with queer theories and aesthetics of belonging. Using the 2017 podcast S-Town as my case study, I examine the aural aesthetics of queer failure, temporality, archives, embodiment, and desire as key elements in this complex medium. Putting these theories and aesthetics into practice, I describe my process of research-creation and present a podcast I made about my road trip to Woodstock, Alabama, S-Town’s place of origin.
The streamable audio of the podcast can be found in DigitalCommons@Mac.
Recommended Citation
Schukar, Kira, "Queering the Ear: Podcast Aesthetics and the Embodied Archive in S-Town" (2022). English Honors Projects. 47.
https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/english_honors/47
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