Sounding off : : rhythm, music, and identity in West African and Caribbean francophone novels / / Julie Huntington.

• Superior document: African Soundscapes
• Author: Huntington, Julie Anne.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: African Soundscapes
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.Hunti

Table of Contents

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Rhythm and Transcultural Poetics; Rhythm and Transculture; Method; 2. Rhythm and Reappropriation in God's Bits of Wood and The Suns of Independence; Language and the Language of Music; Rhythm and Reappropriation in the Novel; Instrumentaliture at Work; Rhythm and Transformation; Ordinary and Extraordinary Rhythms; 3. Rhythm, Music, and Identity in L'appel des arènes and Ti Jean L'horizon; Rhythm, Music, Subjectivity, and the Novel; Rhythm and Identity in L'appel des arènes; Rhythm and Identity in Ti Jean L'horizon; Rethinking Rootedness

4. Music and Mourning in Crossing the Mangrove and Solibo MagnificentMemory, Mourning, and Mosaic Identities; Rhythm, Music, and Identity as Process; The Sounds of Death and Mourning; Configuring Rhythmic and Musically Mediated Identities; Concluding Remarks; Works Cited; Index