Phonographic Memories - Popular Music and the Contemporary Caribbean Novel

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments..... vii

Introduction.....1

1. Phonographic Memory:

Tracing the Calypsonian's Work in Lawrence Scott's Night Calypso .....35

2. "Record Your Memories":

The Bolero Aesthetic in Oscar Hijuelos' The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.....80

3. Re-Membering "Body and Soul":

Gender, Gwoka, and Jazz in Daniel Maximin's Lone Sun.....128

4. Roots, Romance, Reggae:

 (Dis)Placing Memory in Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain .....182

5. Memory as Mixtape:

The Dub Aesthetic in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge.....236

Coda.....283

Notes .....296

Works Cited .....TK

 

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Njelle W. Hamilton is an assistant professor in the departments of English and African-American and African studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Zusammenfassung

Provides 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, Njelle Hamilton tunes in to each novel's soundtrack while considering the broader listening cultures that sustain collective memory.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Njelle W Hamilton, Njelle W. Hamilton
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 03.05.2019
• EAN: 9780813596600
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-9660-0
• Seiten: 236
• Serie: Critical Caribbean Studies
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Romanische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft