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Performance and Personhood in Caribbean Literature: From Alexis to the Digital Age (New World Studies)
Jeannine Murray-Román
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Hardcover. Focusing on the literary representation of performance practices in anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone Caribbean literature, Jeannine Murray-Roman shows how a shared regional aesthetic emerges from the descriptions of music, dance, and oral storytelling events. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; CFFD; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Focusing on the literary representation of performance practices in anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone Caribbean literature, Jeannine Murray-Román shows how a shared regional aesthetic emerges from the descriptions of music, dance, and oral storytelling events. Because the historical circumstances that led to the development of performance traditions supersede the geopolitical and linguistic divisions of colonialism, the literary uses of these traditions resonate across the linguistic boundaries of the region. The author thus identifies the aesthetic that emerges from the act of writing about live arts and moving bodies as a practice that is grounded in the historically, geographically, and culturally specific ... Read more
Focusing on the literary representation of performance practices in anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone Caribbean literature, Jeannine Murray-Román shows how a shared regional aesthetic emerges from the descriptions of music, dance, and oral storytelling events. Because the historical circumstances that led to the development of performance traditions supersede the geopolitical and linguistic divisions of colonialism, the literary uses of these traditions resonate across the linguistic boundaries of the region. The author thus identifies the aesthetic that emerges from the act of writing about live arts and moving bodies as a practice that is grounded in the historically, geographically, and culturally specific ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
New World Studies
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813938479
SKU
V9780813938479
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About Jeannine Murray-Román
Jeannine Murray-Román is Assistant Professor of French and Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University, USA.
Reviews for Performance and Personhood in Caribbean Literature: From Alexis to the Digital Age (New World Studies)
Performance and Personhood in Caribbean Literature is a smart, theoretically rich, linguistically comprehensive, and beautifully written book on a topic that has vexed the study of Caribbean literature from the beginnings of its formation. Many scholars have tried this kind of comprehensive pan-Caribbean literary analysis, but few have been as successful as Murray-Román in crafting a book that engages questions ... Read more