Guarracino Guarracino
Biographic Data
| ID | 5604418 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guarracino Guarracino |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guarracino |
| FAMILY NAME | Guarracino |
| SIGNATURE | GUARRACINO G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Africa as Voices and Vibes: Musical Routes in Toni Morrison's Margaret Garner and Desdemona
This essay provides a tentative mapping of the musical Africa emerging from Toni Morrison’s two recent forays into musical theater, the opera Margaret Garner (2005) and the theatrical piece Desdemona (2011). Both works operate as affective events taking place in performance, and while neither is actually set in Africa, both enact a memory of pre-Middle Passage experience through music. Margaret Garner , set in the US, goes back to the slave woman…
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Africa as Voices and Vibes: Musical Routes in Toni Morrison's Margaret Garner and Desdemona
This essay provides a tentative mapping of the musical Africa emerging from Toni Morrison’s two recent forays into musical theater, the opera Margaret Garner (2005) and the theatrical piece Desdemona (2011). Both works operate as affective events taking place in performance, and while neither is actually set in Africa, both enact a memory of pre-Middle Passage experience through music. Margaret Garner , set in the US, goes back to the slave woman…
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