A Bridge over Troubled Waters
Jazz, Diaspora Discourse, and E. B. Dongala's “Jazz and Palm Wine” as Response to Amiri Baraka's “Answers in Progress”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9250398 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Willey Willey (University of Louisville Hospital, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 138 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Research in African Literatures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-5210 • E-ISSN: 1527-2044 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/reseafrilite.44.3.138 |
| OpenAlex | W4233155536 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
This essay explores how Emmanuel Dongala’s story “Jazz and Palm Wine” (1970) rewrites Imiri Baraka’s story “Answers in Progress” (1967). Baraka’s story calls for a black revolution based in furturist thinking and diaspora consciousness embodied in jazz. In rewriting Baraka, Dongala resists discourses of coherent and stable identity through a recasting of the aesthetic functions of futurism and jazz. Dongala’s intertextual use of, and emendations to, Baraka’s story suggest his discomfort with articulations of diaspora identity that, in the late 60s, were increasingly defined by cultural symbols. In transposing Baraka’s futurist fable of the revolution to the African continent, Dongala stresses that while aesthetic objects, even ones as universally appealing as jazz, can be equally affective in different contexts, those contexts generate dramatically different effects
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Dance · Diaspora · Identity (music) · Jazz · Jazz dance · Literature · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Gender Studies · History · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |