Music and identity in twentieth-century literature from our America : noteworthy protagonists / Marco Katz Montiel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Katz Montiel, Marco, 1952- author.

Series:

Literatures of the Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Music and literature.

Music and literature--Latin America--History--20th century.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Latin American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Latin American literature.

History.

Latin America.

United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 215 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York City : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

Intellectual discussions have fallen short of developing a truly hemispheric view of the Americas. With eye towards filling this gap, Music and Identity in Twentieth-Century Literature from Our America offers a one-of-a-kind approach to exploring American homologies while taking account of national and regional differences. Written by a professional musician turned literary scholar and based on an interdisciplinary Cultural Studies approach, this new methodology uses rigorous musicianship and critical literary theory to consider relationships between musical protagonists from Colombia, Cuba, and the United States in novels by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alejo Carpentier, Zora Neale Hurston, and John Okada. In addition to providing useful ideas for inter-American studies, this book opens up new ways of reading texts related to Latin American, African American, and Asian American studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I First Movement: Numbers, Music, and the Reality of Gabriel García Márquez 21

Chapter 1 Exposition: Literary and Musical Consonances 25

Chapter 2 Development: Dissonant Confrontations 43

Part II Intermezzo: Musical Segmentalizing 61

Part III Second Movement: Meanwhile, on the Other Side of the Caribbean 77

Chapter 3 Theme: Alejo Carpentier Sets the Stage 81

Chapter 4 Variations: Hurston and Carpentier's Caribbean Counterpoint 95

Part IV Third Movement: Stretching the Northern Boundaries of America 115

Chapter 5 Scherzo: ID Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing 125

Chapter 6 Rondo: John Okada Returns to America and Returns to America and Returns... 131

Part V Coda: More Possibilities for Discovering Music in American Literature 155.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137433329

1137433329

OCLC:

872562190