The main objective of this study is to establish a framework for the designation of transpoetic and transcultural spaces in a selection of West African and Caribbean Francophone novels, namely Ousmane Sembenes Les Bouts de Bois de Dieu, Ahmadou Kouroumas Les Soleils des Indépendances, Aminata Sow Falls LAppel des arènes, Simone Schwarz-Barts Ti-Jean Lhorizon, Maryse Condés Traversée de la Mangrove, and Patrick Chamoiseaus Solibo Magnifique. In shaping the argumentation for this study, critical components from a variety of academic disciplines including anthropology, musicology, philosophy, and literary criticism are considered. This study further examines texted representations of rhythmic and musical phenomena as presented in each of the selected novels, and explores their implications in linguistic, sociocultural, political, and aesthetic domains.
Whether manifest in quotidian biological, mechanized, and musical rhythms, or sonorous melodies, euphonies, and cacophonies, such sounding components significantly contribute not only in promoting local aesthetic values and cultural sensibilities in the six novels selected for this study, but also how they open spaces for autonomous identity appropriation and configuration in the the transpoetic transcultural space of the text. In following with this notion, in exploring the texted heartbeats, drumbeats, dance steps, and other sonorities that comprise the rhythmic and musical soundscapes of each novel, it becomes apparent how and why these sounding techniques are important, particularly in view of questions of identity in the post-colonial Francophone world. In this respect, this study endeavors to discover what happens when the freedom and the possibility of rhythm and music resonate from within the textual interface of the novel.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VANDERBILT/oai:VANDERBILTETD:etd-04142005-161736 |
| Date | 24 April 2005 |
| Creators | Huntington, Julie Ann |
| Contributors | Anthere Nzabatsinda, Virginia M. Scott, Gregory F. Barz, Sean X. Goudie, Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller |
| Publisher | VANDERBILT |
| Source Sets | Vanderbilt University Theses |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-04142005-161736/ |
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