CONTENTS
1 Rhythm and Transcultural Poetics
2 Rhythm and Reappropriation in God's Bits of Wood and The Suns of Independence
Language and the Language of Music
Rhythm and Reappropriation in the Novel
Ordinary and Extraordinary Rhythms
3 Rhythm, Music, and Identity in L'appel des arènes and Ti Jean L'horizon
Rhythm, Music, Subjectivity, and the Novel
Rhythm and Identity in L'appel des arènes
Rhythm and Identity in Ti Jean L'horizon
4 Music and Mourning in Crossing the Mangrove and Solibo Magnificent
Memory, Mourning, and Mosaic Identities
Rhythm, Music, and Identity as Process
The Sounds of Death and Mourning