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.
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.
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.
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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
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
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