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Music and Identity in Twentieth-Century Literature from Our America: Noteworthy Protagonists

✍ Scribed by Marco Katz Montiel (auth.)

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Year
2014
Tongue
English
Leaves
235
Series
Literatures of the Americas
Edition
1
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Offering a one-of-a-kind approach to music and literature of the Americas, this book examines the relationships between musical protagonists from Colombia, Cuba, and the United States in novels by writers such as Gabriel García Márquez, Alejo Carpentier, Zora Neale Hurston, and John Okada.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
Overture....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-23
Exposition: Literary and Musical Consonances....Pages 25-42
Development: Dissonant Confrontations....Pages 43-60
Intermezzo: Musical Segmentalizing....Pages 61-75
Front Matter....Pages 77-80
Theme: Alejo Carpentier Sets the Stage....Pages 81-93
Variations: Hurston and Carpentier’s Caribbean Counterpoint....Pages 95-113
Front Matter....Pages 115-124
Scherzo: ID Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing....Pages 125-129
Rondo: John Okada Returns to America and Returns to America and Returns…....Pages 131-153
Front Matter....Pages 155-166
Exit Music: A Marvelous Future....Pages 167-176
Back Matter....Pages 177-215

✦ Subjects

Twentieth-Century Literature;Literary Theory;Cultural Theory;Music;Literary History;North American Literature

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