ABSTRACT
This second of three analysis chapters of the digital stories of undocumented youth examines the use of voice, speech, noises, sounds, and music as a multimodal means of protest against the plight of undocumented youth in the U. S. It lays particular emphasis on the tradition of the testimonio as a form of oral storytelling. Thus, the introduction of the narratives, in particular, bears close resemblance to testimonios such as that of Rigoberta Menchú, most famously. The chapter further connects this tradition to performativity as materialized performances and speech acts, in which one can locate inherent insurgent qualities to counter dispossession. Para-verbal features such as speech tempo, loudness, and pitch, as well as the use of dramatic silences, acoustic space, and, finally, instrumental background music, reveal the richness of sound in the digital testimonios that this chapter sheds light upon.
