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Author Huntington, Julie Anne.

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

Imprint Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 243 pages).
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online resource cr rdacarrier
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Series African soundscapes
African soundscapes.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-233) and 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
Note Print version record.
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 arènes and Ti Jean L'horizon; 4. Music and Mourning in Crossing the Mangrove and Solibo Magnificent; Concluding Remarks; Works Cited; Index.
Language English.
Access Open Access EbpS
Subject African fiction (French) -- History and criticism.
Caribbean fiction (French) -- History and criticism.
Sound in literature.
Rhythm in literature.
Music in literature.
Group identity in literature.
Roman africain (français) -- Histoire et critique.
Roman antillais (français) -- Histoire et critique.
Rythme dans la littérature.
Musique dans la littérature.
Identité collective dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
MUSIC -- Ethnomusicology.
African fiction (French)
Caribbean fiction (French)
Group identity in literature
Music in literature
Rhythm in literature
Sound in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Huntington, Julie Anne. Sounding off. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2009 9781439900314 (DLC) 2009014339 (OCoLC)317462399
ISBN 9781439900338 (electronic bk.)
1439900337 (electronic bk.)
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9781282437319
9786612437311
6612437316
1439900310
9781439900314
9781439900321
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CDX 11910846
DEBBG BV044137353
GBVCP 100362460X
NZ1 13444252
NZ1 13862076
AU@ 000075798461

 
    
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