TY  - BOOK
AU  - Huntington,Julie Anne
TI  - Sounding off: rhythm, music, and identity in West African and Caribbean francophone novels 
T2  - African soundscapes
SN  - 9781439900338
AV  - PQ3984 .H86 2009eb
U1  - 840.9/35780966 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - Temple University Press
KW  - African fiction (French)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Caribbean fiction (French)
KW  - Sound in literature
KW  - Rhythm in literature
KW  - Music in literature
KW  - Group identity in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - French
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - MUSIC
KW  - Ethnomusicology
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-233) and index; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Rhythm and Transcultural Poetics; 2. Rhythm and Reappropriation in God's Bits of Wood and The Suns of Independence; 3. Rhythm, Music, and Identity in L'appel des ar�enes and Ti Jean L'horizon; 4. Music and Mourning in Crossing the Mangrove and Solibo Magnificent; Concluding Remarks; Works Cited; Index; Open Access
N2  - 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 cultur
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