Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781439900338
,
9781439900314
Series Statement:
African Soundscapes
Content:
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 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
Note:
English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Huntington, Julie Anne Sounding off Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2009 ISBN 9781439900314
Language:
Undetermined
