Performance and Personhood in Caribbean Literature From Alexis to the Digital Age 1st Edition by Jeannine Murray-Román ISBN 9780813938479 0813938473
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ISBN 10: 0813938473
ISBN 13: 9780813938479
Author: Jeannine Murray-Román
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 features of the Caribbean itself.
Working with twentieth- and twenty-first-century sources ranging from theatrical works and novels to blogs, Murray-Román examines the ways in which writers such as Jacques Stephen Alexis, Zoé Valdés, Rosario Ferré, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Marlon James experiment with textually compensating for the loss of the corporeality of live relationship in performance traditions. Through their exploration of the interaction of literature and performance, she argues, Caribbean writers themselves offer a mode of bridging the disjunction between cultural and philosophical approaches within Caribbean studies.
Table of contents:
1 Performance and the Expansion of Personhood in Marissa Chibas’s Daughter of a Cuban Revolutionary
2 Creole’s Thinking Body: Patrick Chamoiseau and Marlon James
3 From Spectator to Participant: Audience Formation in Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s Tres tristes tigres, Oonya Kempadoo’s Tide Running, and Ernest Pépin’s L’Envers du décor
4 Staceyann Chin and Zoé Valdés: Sexilic Politics in the Blogosphere
5 Dansez et Revivez!: Reviving Personhood in Rosario Ferré’s Maquinolandera and Jacques Stephen Alexis’s Les Arbres musiciens
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