René Maran’s «Batouala»: Jazz-Text
ISBN-13:
9783034315647
ISBN-10:
3034315643
Edition:
New
Author:
Susan Allen
Publication date:
2015
Publisher:
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Format:
Paperback
343 pages
Category:
Philosophy
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ISBN-13:
9783034315647
ISBN-10:
3034315643
Edition:
New
Author:
Susan Allen
Publication date:
2015
Publisher:
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Format:
Paperback
343 pages
Category:
Philosophy
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René Maran’s «Batouala»: Jazz-Text (ISBN-13: 9783034315647 and ISBN-10: 3034315643), written by authors
Susan Allen, was published by Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften in 2015.
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The polemic excited by Batouala’s controversial Preface has conditioned an enduring, near-universal acceptance of a disjunction of Preface and novel. This is the first book to challenge that premise. The fallacious underpinnings of the origin persistence of this view are shown to lie in Western, dichotomously structured thinking. Through offshoots of the civilised-versus-savage dichotomy, namely oral-versus-written, form-versus-content and music-versus-narrative, Batouala’s Signifyin(g) discourse spills beyond the novel’s borders to reveal the sterility of dichotomy as a conceptualising structure. Dichotomy’s anachronism is thrust upon it through the work’s faithful representation of African ontology, whose water-inspired philosophy precludes it. Batouala’s structural basis is compared with that of jazz, which similarly bridges European and African civilisations, and whose African philosophical stance also acts as a provocation to the dichotomous thinking model. As Batouala «Fixed» transmutes to Batouala «Free», the pejorative implications of its widely touted ambiguity evaporate to expose a novel that is both lucid and coherent when viewed as jazz-text and jazz performance.
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