Music and Identity in Twentieth-Century Literature from Our America
Subtitle: Noteworthy Protagonists
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Aug 20, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781137433329
Description: Intellectual discussions have fallen short of developing a truly hemispheric view of the Americas thus far. With eye towards filling this gap; Music and Identity in Twentieth-Century Literature from Our America, written by a professional musician turned literary scholar, offers a one-of-a-kind approach to exploring American homologies while taking account of national and regional differences. Based on an interdisciplinary Cultural Studies approach, this new methodology brings rigorous musicianship and critical literary theory to consider relationships between musical protagonists from Colombia, Cuba, and the United States in novels by Gabriel Garc̕a M̀rquez, Alejo Carpentier, Zora Neale Hurston, and John Okada. In addition to providing useful ideas for inter-American studies, this book opens up new ways of reading texts related to Latin American, African American, and Asian American studies.
Notes: Source title: Music and Identity in Twentieth-Century Literature from Our America: Noteworthy Protagonists (Literatures of the Americas)