Njelle W Hamilton

Phonographic Memories

Popular Music and the Contemporary Caribbean Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

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

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780813596600
• ISBN-10: 0813596602
• Artikelnr.: 54328565

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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