Sounding off rhythm, music, and identity in West African and Caribbean francophone novels
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 Solib...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia
Temple University Press
2009, 2009
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| Series: | African soundscapes
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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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| Physical Description: | x, 243 pages |
| ISBN: | 9781282437319 9786612437311 6612437316 1439900310 9781439900321 9781439900314 1282437313 |