Postcolonial readings of music in World literature: turning empire on its ear/
Cameron Fae Bushnell.
- New York: Routledge, 2013.
- viii, 204 p. ; 24 cm.
- Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature, 12. .
Introduction:
Beyond Contrapuntalism
A Politics of Alterity in World Literature
Part I: The Amateurs. Borrowing from History, History from Borrowing
Opera on Banjo in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace
Subjectivity and the Genre of Nocturnes in Chang-rae Lee's Gesture Life
Music, Muteness, and Listening in Hulme's the bone people and Campion's The Piano.
Part II: The Virtuosi. (De- ) Composing the Nation
Noise, Ornamentation, and Repetition in McEwan's Amsterdam and MacLaverty's Grace Notes
The Art of Tuning: A Politics of Exile in Mason's The Piano Tuner and Seth's An Equal Music
Articulation and Allegory in Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Coda.
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