| Description |
1 online resource (x, 243 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Series |
African soundscapes
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African soundscapes.
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
African fiction (French) -- History and criticism.
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African fiction (French) |
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Caribbean fiction (French) -- History and criticism.
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Caribbean fiction (French) |
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Sound in literature.
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Sound in literature. |
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Rhythm in literature.
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Rhythm in literature. |
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Music in literature.
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Group identity in literature.
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Music in literature. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French. |
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Group identity in literature. |
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MUSIC -- Ethnomusicology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Huntington, Julie Anne. Sounding off. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2009 9781439900314 (DLC) 2009014339 (OCoLC)317462399 |
| ISBN |
9781439900338 (electronic book) |
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1439900337 (electronic book) |
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1282437313 |
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9781282437319 |
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1439900310 |
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9781439900314 |
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9786612437311 |
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6612437316 |
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9781439900321 |
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