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The Resource Sounding off : rhythm, music, and identity in West African and Caribbean Francophone novels, Julie Huntington

Sounding off : rhythm, music, and identity in West African and Caribbean Francophone novels, Julie Huntington

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Summary
"Sounding Off attends to how sounds function in such novels as Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood (Senegal), Ahmadou Kourouma's The Suns of Independence (Cote d'Ivoire), and Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnificent (Martinique). These writers - like composers - create distinct soundscapes, constructing transpoetic and transcultural links that resonate. The voices, cadences, and sonorities in these narratives create a rich soundtrack to the characters' lives, framing them with a rhythmic polyphony that helps form 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."--BOOK JACKET
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
x, 243 p.
Contents
  • Instrumentaliture at Work
  • Rhythm and Transformation
  • Ordinary and Extraordinary Rhythms
  • 3.
  • Rhythm, Music, and Identity in Eappel des arenes and Ti Jean L'horizon
  • Rhythm, Music, Subjectivity, and the Novel
  • Rhythm and Identity in L'appel des arenes
  • Rhythm and Identity in Ti Jean L'horizon
  • Rethinking Rootedness
  • 4.
  • 1.
  • Music and Mourning in Crossing the Mangrove and Solibo Magnificent
  • Memory, Mourning, and Mosaic Identities
  • Rhythm, Music, and Identity as Process
  • Sounds of Death and Mourning
  • Configuring Rhythmic and Musically Mediated Identities
  • Rhythm and Transcultural Poetics
  • Rhythm and Transculture
  • Method
  • 2.
  • Rhythm and Reappropriation in God's Bits of Wood and The Suns of Independence
  • Language and the Language of Music
  • Rhythm and Reappropriation in the Novel
Isbn
9781439900314
Instance
Label
Sounding off : rhythm, music, and identity in West African and Caribbean Francophone novels
Title
Sounding off
Title remainder
rhythm, music, and identity in West African and Caribbean Francophone novels
Statement of responsibility
Julie Huntington
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"Sounding Off attends to how sounds function in such novels as Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood (Senegal), Ahmadou Kourouma's The Suns of Independence (Cote d'Ivoire), and Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnificent (Martinique). These writers - like composers - create distinct soundscapes, constructing transpoetic and transcultural links that resonate. The voices, cadences, and sonorities in these narratives create a rich soundtrack to the characters' lives, framing them with a rhythmic polyphony that helps form 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."--BOOK JACKET
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Huntington, Julie Anne
Dewey number
840.9/35780966
Index
index present
LC call number
PQ3984
LC item number
.H86 2009
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
African soundscapes
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • African fiction (French)
  • Caribbean fiction (French)
  • Sound in literature
  • Rhythm in literature
  • Music in literature
  • Group identity in literature
Label
Sounding off : rhythm, music, and identity in West African and Caribbean Francophone novels, Julie Huntington
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
  • Instrumentaliture at Work
  • Rhythm and Transformation
  • Ordinary and Extraordinary Rhythms
  • 3.
  • Rhythm, Music, and Identity in Eappel des arenes and Ti Jean L'horizon
  • Rhythm, Music, Subjectivity, and the Novel
  • Rhythm and Identity in L'appel des arenes
  • Rhythm and Identity in Ti Jean L'horizon
  • Rethinking Rootedness
  • 4.
  • 1.
  • Music and Mourning in Crossing the Mangrove and Solibo Magnificent
  • Memory, Mourning, and Mosaic Identities
  • Rhythm, Music, and Identity as Process
  • Sounds of Death and Mourning
  • Configuring Rhythmic and Musically Mediated Identities
  • Rhythm and Transcultural Poetics
  • Rhythm and Transculture
  • Method
  • 2.
  • Rhythm and Reappropriation in God's Bits of Wood and The Suns of Independence
  • Language and the Language of Music
  • Rhythm and Reappropriation in the Novel
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
x, 243 p.
Isbn
9781439900314
Isbn Type
(cloth : alk. paper)
Lccn
2009014339
System control number
  • (CaMWU)u2061991-01umb_inst
  • 2014000
  • (OCoLC)317462399
Label
Sounding off : rhythm, music, and identity in West African and Caribbean Francophone novels, Julie Huntington
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
  • Instrumentaliture at Work
  • Rhythm and Transformation
  • Ordinary and Extraordinary Rhythms
  • 3.
  • Rhythm, Music, and Identity in Eappel des arenes and Ti Jean L'horizon
  • Rhythm, Music, Subjectivity, and the Novel
  • Rhythm and Identity in L'appel des arenes
  • Rhythm and Identity in Ti Jean L'horizon
  • Rethinking Rootedness
  • 4.
  • 1.
  • Music and Mourning in Crossing the Mangrove and Solibo Magnificent
  • Memory, Mourning, and Mosaic Identities
  • Rhythm, Music, and Identity as Process
  • Sounds of Death and Mourning
  • Configuring Rhythmic and Musically Mediated Identities
  • Rhythm and Transcultural Poetics
  • Rhythm and Transculture
  • Method
  • 2.
  • Rhythm and Reappropriation in God's Bits of Wood and The Suns of Independence
  • Language and the Language of Music
  • Rhythm and Reappropriation in the Novel
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
x, 243 p.
Isbn
9781439900314
Isbn Type
(cloth : alk. paper)
Lccn
2009014339
System control number
  • (CaMWU)u2061991-01umb_inst
  • 2014000
  • (OCoLC)317462399

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