Re-creating Paul Bowles, the Other, and the Imagination: Music, Film, and Photography - Rilegato

Chandarlapaty, Raj

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ISBN 10: 1498502822 ISBN 13: 9781498502825

Casa editrice: Lexington Books, 2014

Riassunto

As we withdraw farther from American canonical literature and poetry and move closer to a re-appraisal of literature’s impact upon the arts through media, we may easily find a match for greater humanism and popular interaction in American rock culture through Paul Bowles. In this work, Bowles is re-invented within the postmodern, the postcolonial, and the renegade future underscored by liberal elites that had breathed new life into the American counterculture.Re-Creating Paul Bowles attests to the moments of relentless humanism and imaginative transformation that are most dreamlike, engaging the antagonism of psychology with imperialism at last. In his youth a classical composer and critic, Bowles deserves credit for spawning new generations of rock and pop music through his use of sound and tapping of non-Western or non-European folk music, bringing classic ethnography to the rock generation withMusic of Morocco. Re-Creating Paul Bowles examines the Latin American, American, African, and Arab moments of his scholastic effort, a primary beginning for understanding modern popular music’s free transcription of tradition.

Re-Creating Paul Bowles includes several examples of films that adapt the author’s personal life and times, the production of surrealist technique in film and literature, and the re-invention of classic works such as The Sheltering Sky andCollected Stories. It assumes the technique for re-production allows the elder Bowles greater freedom in crossing cultural boundaries and overruling the colonialist separateness that guarded cultural content for centuries. Bowles has always deserved re-appraisal in the American academy—and liberation from his stereotypical cult figure identity, a positive force in the ethnic comprehension of Self and society.

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L'autore:

Raj Chandarlapaty is assistant professor of English at the American University in Afghanistan.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Lexington Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1498502822
• ISBN 13: 9781498502825
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 191