Introduction
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| Title: | Introduction |
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| Authors: | Martin Munro |
| Source: | Listening to the Caribbean ISBN: 9781802070224 |
| Publisher Information: | Liverpool University Press, 2022. |
| Publication Year: | 2022 |
| Description: | 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. |
| Document Type: | Part of book or chapter of book |
| Language: | English |
| DOI: | 10.3828/liverpool/9781802070224.003.0001 |
| Accession Number: | edsair.doi...........e6404e00b1b7f6f68b58e2c48d89f806 |
| Database: | OpenAIRE |
Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstract: | 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. |
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| DOI: | 10.3828/liverpool/9781802070224.003.0001 |