Migration Blues in Jazz Styling: Spinning Them Overlooked Jazz and Blues Numbers in Brian Chikwava's Fiction

This essay contends that the narrator's invocations of music in Harare North are not as serendipitous and isolated as they seem. Rather, jazz and blues function semiotically and axially in the story. I argue that together they serve, on the one hand, as a reminder of and an indirect authorial s...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Research in African literatures 2016-12, Vol.47 (4), p.152-170
1. Verfasser:	Okonkwo, Christopher N
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	African American literature African culture African fiction African literature African writers American literature Authors, African Blues music Chikwava, Brian Criticism and interpretation Diaspora Ellison, Ralph (1914-1994) ESSAYS Fiction Jazz Migration Music Musical chords Musical improvisation Musical performance Musical performances Musicians & conductors Narrators Noncitizens Postmodernism Semiotics World literature Writers
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