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Sounding off : rhythm, music, and identity in West African and Caribbean francophone novels / Julie Huntington.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: African soundscapesPublication details: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (x, 243 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781439900338
  • 1439900337
  • 1282437313
  • 9781282437319
  • 9786612437311
  • 6612437316
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sounding off.DDC classification:
  • 840.9/35780966 22
LOC classification:
  • PQ3984 .H86 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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 cultur.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-233) and index.

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.

Print version record.

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.

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