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    Sounding Off
    Rhythm, Music, and Identity in West African and Caribbean Francophone Novels

    Julie Huntington (Author)

    9781439900314

    Hardback, published 25 September 2009

    256 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.666 kg

    "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

    A look at how West African and Caribbean Francophone writers use rhythm, music, and sound to create and negotiate identity

    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 Magnificent 
    Memory, 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
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