Phonographic Memories : : Popular Music and the Contemporary Caribbean Novel / / Njelle W. Hamilton.
Phonographic Memories is the first book to perform a sustained analysis of the narrative and thematic influence of Caribbean popular music on the Caribbean novel. Tracing a region-wide attention to the deep connections between music and memory in the work of Lawrence Scott, Oscar Hijuelos, Colin Cha...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Caribbean Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Phonographic Memory: Tracing the Calypsonian's Work in Lawrence Scott's Night Calypso
- 2. "Record Your Memories": The Bolero Aesthetic in Oscar Hijuelos's The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
- 3. Re-membering "Body and Soul": Gender, Jazz, and Gwoka in Daniel Maximin's Lone Sun
- 4. Roots, Romance, Reggae: (Dis)Placing Memory in Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain
- 5. Memory as Mixtape: The Dub Aesthetic in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge
- Coda
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index