Performance and personhood in Caribbean literature : from Alexis to the digital age /

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Author / Creator:Murray-Román, Jeannine, 1977- author.
Imprint:Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, [2016]
©2016
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:New world studies
New World studies.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11675947
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ISBN:9780813938479
0813938473
9780813938493
081393849X
9780813938493
0813938473
9780813938486
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Murray-Román, Jeannine, 1977- Performance and personhood in Caribbean literature. Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, [2016] 9780813938479