Postcolonial Readings of Music in World Literature: Turning Empire on Its Ear

ISBN-13: 9780415539562 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 216 str.

Cameron Fae Bushnell

Opis

This book reads representations of Western music in literary texts to reveal the ways in which artifacts of imperial culture function within contemporary world literature.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Beyond Contrapuntalism: A Politics of Alterity in World Literature  Part I: The Amateurs  2. Borrowing from History, History from Borrowing: Opera on Banjo in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace  3. Subjectivity and the Genre of Nocturnes in Chang-rae Lee’s Gesture Life  4. Music, Muteness, and Listening in Hulme’s the bone people and Campion’s The Piano  Part II: The Virtuosi  5. (De-) Composing the Nation: Noise,Ornamentation, and Repetition in McEwan’s Amsterdam and MacLaverty’s Grace Notes  6. The Art of Tuning: A Politics of Exile in Mason’s The Piano Tuner and Seth’s An Equal Music  7. Articulation and Allegory in Rushdie’s The Ground Beneath Her Feet   8. Coda

O autorze

Cameron Fae Bushnell is Assistant Professor of 20th-Century Anglophone Postcolonial Literature at Clemson University, US.