SOURCE: "'The Noisiest Novel Ever Written': The Soundscape of Henry Roth's Call It Sleep," in Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 35, No. 1, Spring, 1989, pp. 43-64.
In the following essay, Adams analyzes the importance of sound as a signifier of power in Roth's Call It Sleep.
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