The Performance of Listening in Postcolonial Francophone Culture
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-80085-577-9 (ISBN)
The Performance of Listening in Postcolonial Francophone Culture argues that globalized media has allowed for efficient transmission of transnational culture, and in turn, our everyday experiences are informed by sounds ranging from voices, to music, to advertising, to bombs, and beyond. In considering cultural works from French-speaking North Africa and the Middle East all published or released in France from 1962-2011, Solheim’s study of listening across cultural genres will be of interest to any scholar or lay person curious about contemporary postcolonial France. This book is also a primer to contemporary Francophone culture from North Africa and the Middle East. Some of the French-speaking world’s most renowned and adored artists are the subject of this study, including preeminent Algerian feminist novelist, filmmaker and historian Assia Djebar (1936-2015), the first writer of the Maghreb to become part of the Académie Française; celebrated Iranian graphic novelist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis, Chicken with Plums); the lauded Lebanese-Québecois playwright and dramaturge Wajdi Mouawad (Littorial, Incendies), and Lebanese comic artist and avant jazz trumpeter Mazen Kerbaj, whose improvisation with Israeli fighter jets during the 2006 Israeli War, “Starry Night,” catapulted him to global recognition. An interdisciplinary study of contemporary Francophone cultures, this book will be of interest to French scholars and students in literary studies, performance studies, gender studies, anthropology, history, and ethnomusicology.
Jennifer Solheim is an independent scholar of French and Francophone Studies. She received her degree from University of Michigan in French in 2011 and currently works as a freelance academic editor. You can learn more about her work at www.jennifersolheim.com.
List of Illustrations ixAcknowledgments xi1 Introduction 1
Part I: The Performance of Listening in Literary Narratives2 Cut Sound: The Literary Staging of Silence 233 Visual and Sonic Imagery in PostcolonialFrancophone Culture 55
Part II: The Performance of Listening in Film and Theater4 Citational Hooks: Music and Middle Eastern GenderIdentities in Postcolonial Francophone Film and Theater 91
Part III: The Performance of Listening in Music5 Covering French Universalism: Alter-Globalism inKabyle Music in France 1296 Beirut Calling: The Performance of Listeningin Digital Discourses of Conflict 157
Bibliography 166Index 173
Erscheinungsdatum | 06.09.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures ; 52 |
Verlagsort | Liverpool |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-80085-577-X / 180085577X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-80085-577-9 / 9781800855779 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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