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Intrigued by ""texted"" sonorities-the rhythms, musics, ordinary noises, and sounds of language in narratives-Julie Huntington examines the soundscapes in contemporary Francophone novels such as Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood (Senegal), and Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnificent (Martinique). Through an ethnomusicological perspective, Huntington argues in Sounding Off that the range of sounds -footsteps, heartbeats, drumbeats-represented in West African and Caribbean works provides a rhythmic polyphony that creates spaces for configuring social and cultural identities.Hunti

African fiction (French) --- Caribbean fiction (French) --- Sounds in literature. --- Rhythm in literature. --- Music in literature. --- Group identity in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Sounds in literature --- French fiction --- Caribbean literature (French) --- Sound in literature.