Performance and Personhood in Caribbean Literature : From Alexis to the Digital Age /

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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 circums...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Murray-Román, Jeannine, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : University of Virginia Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Self-perception in literature.
Performance in literature.
Literature and society.
Caribbean literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Litterature et societe > Caraïbes (Region) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Perception de soi dans la litterature.
Rendement au travail dans la litterature.
Litterature antillaise > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Literature and society > Caribbean Area > History > 20th century.
Caribbean literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Caribbean Area.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 writi.
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages).
ISBN:9780813938493

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