Introduction

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Název: Introduction
Autoři: Martin Munro
Zdroj: Listening to the Caribbean ISBN: 9781802070224
Informace o vydavateli: Liverpool University Press, 2022.
Rok vydání: 2022
Popis: Beginning with the case of a Jesuit priest in French Guiana in 1751, the question of ear cropping is introduced. Under the Code Noir of 1685, the cropping of ears is prescribed as a punishment for runaway slaves. Drawing on the work of Diana Paton and Vincent Brown, the case of ear cropping is considered in the broader context of slave punishment in the Caribbean, while the case of the French priest is threaded through the introduction as a means of connecting his lived reality of the auditory world of the forest to the critical and theoretical references, which range from Caribbean authors such as Frantz Fanon, Edouard Glissant, and Jean-Claude Charles to prominent sound theorists such as Mark M. Smith, Leigh Eric Schmidt, and Steven Feld, and other relevant scholars such as Saidiya Hartman and Nicholas Mirzoeff. As such, the book is grounded in sound studies and Caribbean studies, and from the outset is deeply engaged with close readings of contemporary texts about slavery and plantation life.
Druh dokumentu: Part of book or chapter of book
Jazyk: English
DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9781802070224.003.0001
Přístupové číslo: edsair.doi...........e6404e00b1b7f6f68b58e2c48d89f806
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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Abstrakt:Beginning with the case of a Jesuit priest in French Guiana in 1751, the question of ear cropping is introduced. Under the Code Noir of 1685, the cropping of ears is prescribed as a punishment for runaway slaves. Drawing on the work of Diana Paton and Vincent Brown, the case of ear cropping is considered in the broader context of slave punishment in the Caribbean, while the case of the French priest is threaded through the introduction as a means of connecting his lived reality of the auditory world of the forest to the critical and theoretical references, which range from Caribbean authors such as Frantz Fanon, Edouard Glissant, and Jean-Claude Charles to prominent sound theorists such as Mark M. Smith, Leigh Eric Schmidt, and Steven Feld, and other relevant scholars such as Saidiya Hartman and Nicholas Mirzoeff. As such, the book is grounded in sound studies and Caribbean studies, and from the outset is deeply engaged with close readings of contemporary texts about slavery and plantation life.
DOI:10.3828/liverpool/9781802070224.003.0001