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  • Chapter 8 - Finding Your Happy Place in Solitude

  • Netta Weinstein, University of Reading, Heather Hansen, University of Reading, Thuy-vy T. Nguyen, Durham University
  • Book:
    Solitude
    Published online:
    24 March 2024
    Print publication:
    18 April 2024, pp 158-177

  • Summary

    What role do settings play in positive solitude? What value do quiet and stillness have? In this chapter, we talk about sensory overload in the modern world and about honoring our senses in solitude. Beyond anecdotal appreciation of the value of quietude is now a growing body of scientific evidence of its importance. Here we talk about quiet as a phenomenon that has been well-studied in recent decades. Those findings on the "science of quiet," in some cases, echo centuries of lived experiences in certain parts of the world and, most recently, the mounting benefits of quiet have gone mainstream.

Solitude
  • The Science and Power of Being Alone
  • Netta Weinstein, Heather Hansen, Thuy-vy T. Nguyen
  • Published online:
    24 March 2024
    Print publication:
    18 April 2024
  • The average adult spends nearly one-third of their waking life alone. How do we overcome the stigma of solitude and find strength in going it alone? Whether we love it or try to avoid it, we can make better use of that time. The science of solitude shows that alone time can be a powerful space used to tap into countless benefits. Translating key research findings into actionable facts and advice, this book shows that alone time can boost well-being. From relaxation and recharging to problem solving and emotion regulation, solitude can benefit personal growth, contentment, creativity, and our relationships with ourselves and others. Learning what makes us better at spending time alone can help us move toward our best possible selves.

  • 13 - African American Soundscapes

  • from Part IV - Critical Approaches
  • Edited by Yogita Goyal, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
    Published online:
    14 December 2023
    Print publication:
    21 December 2023, pp 227-238

  • Summary

    Touching down in a few of the many geographies of Black sound, this chapter pauses to listen in between the lines and forms of Black literary creation. Inclusive of readings of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Paul Beatty, Jesmyn Ward, and others, this chapter examines the penetrating collusions of the sonic and/as the literary in order to briefly mark their interreliance and to consider the conditions and futures of blackness as improvisational practice.