Transpositions : Migration, Translation, Music

Alison Rice

ISBN 10: 1789621127 / ISBN 13: 9781789621129

Published by Liverpool University Press Nov 2021, 2021

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Neuware - This collective volume concentrates on the concept of transposition, exploring its potential as a lens through which to examine recent Francophone literary, cinematic, theatrical, musical, and artistic creations that reveal multilingual and multicultural realities.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Transpositions : Migration, Translation, Music
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press Nov 2021
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789621127
• ISBN 13: 9781789621129
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 233W x 156H x 20D millimeters 233 millimeters width by 156 millimeters height by 20 millimeters depth
• Weight: 468 grams

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Synopsis

This publication benefited from the support of the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts at the University of Notre Dame.

This collective volume concentrates on the concept of transposition, exploring its potential as a lens through which to examine recent Francophone literary, cinematic, theatrical, musical, and artistic creations that reveal multilingual and multicultural realities. The chapters are composed by leading scholars in French and Francophone Studies who engage in interdisciplinary reflections on the ways transcontinental movement has influenced diverse genres. It begins with the premise that an attentiveness to migration has inspired writers, artists, filmmakers, playwrights and musicians to engage in new forms of translation in their work. Their own diverse backgrounds combine with their awareness of the itineraries of others to have an impact on the innovative languages that emerge in their creative production. These contemporary figures realize that migratory actualities must be transposed into different linguistic and cultural contexts in order to be legible and audible, in order to be perceptible―either for the reader, the listener, or the viewer. The novels, films, plays, works of art and musical pieces that exemplify such transpositions adopt inventive elements that push the limits of formal composition in French. This work is therefore often inspiring as it points in evocative ways toward fluid influences and a plurality of interactions that render impossible any static conception of being or belonging.

About the Author

Alison Rice is the Dr. William M. Scholl Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies and the Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literature at the University of Notre Dame.