03750nam 22007454a 450 991045526080332120200520144314.01-282-43731-397866124373111-4399-0033-7(CKB)1000000000811366(EBL)449818(OCoLC)607553985(SSID)ssj0000366057(PQKBManifestationID)11923615(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000366057(PQKBWorkID)10414086(PQKB)11664590(MiAaPQ)EBC449818(OCoLC)535893995(MdBmJHUP)muse15521(Au-PeEL)EBL449818(CaPaEBR)ebr10351571(CaONFJC)MIL243731(EXLCZ)99100000000081136620090407d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSounding off rhythm, music, and identity in West African and Caribbean francophone novels /Julie Huntington1st ed.Philadelphia Temple University Press20091 online resource (257 p.)African SoundscapesDescription based upon print version of record.1-4399-0032-9 1-4399-0031-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-233) and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. 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; Instrumentaliture at Work; Rhythm and Transformation; Ordinary and Extraordinary Rhythms; 3. Rhythm, Music, and Identity in L'appel des arènes and Ti Jean L'horizon; Rhythm, Music, Subjectivity, and the Novel; Rhythm and Identity in L'appel des arènes; Rhythm and Identity in Ti Jean L'horizon; Rethinking Rootedness4. Music and Mourning in Crossing the Mangrove and Solibo MagnificentMemory, Mourning, and Mosaic Identities; Rhythm, Music, and Identity as Process; The Sounds of Death and Mourning; Configuring Rhythmic and Musically Mediated Identities; Concluding Remarks; Works Cited; IndexIntrigued 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 cultural identities.HuntiAfrican SoundscapesAfrican fiction (French)History and criticismCaribbean fiction (French)History and criticismSounds in literatureRhythm in literatureMusic in literatureGroup identity in literatureAfrican fiction (French)History and criticism.Caribbean fiction (French)History and criticism.Sounds in literature.Rhythm in literature.Music in literature.Group identity in literature.840.9/35780966Huntington Julie Anne975064MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455260803321Sounding off2220214UNINA