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Description:: This dissertation examines the impact of sound on the African literary imagination since the 1970s. I posit the sonority of postcolonial African writing in order to draw out the relatively ignored but remarkably rich stylistic innovations and political interventions oriented around sound. While the orality–textuality debate in African literary studies...
Keyword:: African novel, postcolonial literature, sound studies, orality, voice, and Dambudzo Marechera
Subject:: Comparative literature, African literature, and African studies
Creator:: Newman, Scott Peter
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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Description:: During the antebellum and post-Reconstruction periods, Black authors were concerned with white antipathy towards the political aspirations of African Americans. For many of these authors, sonic figures of resonance, vibration, and musicality served as the key sensory modalities through which the nexus of American anti-Blackness and civil politics could be...
Keyword:: Frederick Douglass, Pauline Hopkins, sound studies, and Harriet Jacobs
Subject:: African American studies and English literature
Creator:: Papanikolas, Antonio
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_775582 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15361

Description:: This dissertation is an ethnography that investigates how Chicago-based artists and organizations use hip-hop performance as a tool for grassroots education and communal dissent. By exploring these local artistic approaches, this research reveals the salience of hip-hop performance in cultivating social movements, embodied politics, and choreographic repertoires that respond to...
Keyword:: social justice, hip-hop pedagogy, cultural studies, sound studies, juvenile justice, and urban ethnography
Subject:: Performance Studies
Creator:: Justin Zullo
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 11/25/2019
Date Modified:: 11/25/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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