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 |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2009.
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| Series: | African soundscapes.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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: | 1 online resource (x, 243 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-233) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781439900338 1439900337 1282437313 9781282437319 9786612437311 6612437316 |