The Double Passage: Performing Sound in Slave Narrative 1

Adres Üniversitesi, Fen Fakültesi, Türk Dili, Edebiyatı Bölümü, Kayalı Kampüsü -Kırklareli, Türkiye, Giuseppe Sofo
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The article describes the "double passage" of millions of African people from freedom to America, and from America to freedom. Focusing on the role of sound in slave narrative, and in particular in slave narrative for performance (drama and music), the article will try to reach an understanding of the importance of sound in the construction of meaning, and in the fight for freedom in slave narrative. If slaves have in fact seen their freedom vanish through writing, it is often through the
more » ... word and through music that they have acquired a right to speak out and obtain freedom.
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