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- Sounding Off: Rhythm, Music, and Identity in West African and Caribbean Francophone Novels
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: Temple University Press
summary
Intrigued by "texted" sonorities—the rhythms, musics, ordinary noises, and sounds of language in narratives—Julie Huntington examines the soundscapes in contemporary Francophone novels such as Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood (Senegal), and Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnificent (Martinique). Through an ethnomusicological perspective, Huntington argues in Sounding Off that the range of sounds —footsteps, heartbeats, drumbeats—represented in West African and Caribbean works provides a rhythmic polyphony that creates spaces for configuring social and cultural identities.
Huntington’s analysis shows how these writers and others challenge the aesthetic and political conventions that privilege written texts over orality and invite readers-listeners to participate in critical dialogues—to sound off, as it were, in local and global communities.
Huntington’s analysis shows how these writers and others challenge the aesthetic and political conventions that privilege written texts over orality and invite readers-listeners to participate in critical dialogues—to sound off, as it were, in local and global communities.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. 1-19
- 1. Rhythm and Transcultural Poetics
- pp. 20-61
- Concluding Remarks
- pp. 217-222
- Works Cited
- pp. 223-234
- About the Author
- p. 244
Additional Information
ISBN
9781439900338
Related ISBN(s)
9781439900314, 9781439900321
MARC Record
OCLC
535893995
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No