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
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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.
