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Performance and Personhood in Caribbean Literature - From Alexis to the Digital Age (Paperback)
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Performance and Personhood in Caribbean Literature - From Alexis to the Digital Age (Paperback)
Series: New World Studies
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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 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.
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