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Sounding Off: Rhythm, Music, and Identity in West African and Caribbean Francophone Novels American Literatures Initiative Edition
Author(s): Julie Huntington (Author)
- Publisher: Temple University Press
- Publication Date: September 25, 2009
- Edition: American Literatures Initiative
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 1439900310
- ISBN-13: 9781439900314
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Huntington’s emphasis on the interconnections of the related arts—music, poetry, fiction, oral tradition etc.—is one of the few to treat systematically, and in a sound, sophisticated theoretical and ethnographic framework, the important traits of African literary, oral and musical productions. Sounding Off will make a great contribution to the interdisciplinary study and thus provide a deeper understanding of musical and literary-artistic productions in African and diasporan communities.”
—Daniel Avorgbedor, Ohio State University, Columbus
