Re-creating Paul Bowles, the Other, and the Imagination

Music, Film, and Photography

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

As we withdraw farther from American canonical literature and poetry and move closer to a re-appraisal of literature’s impact upon the arts through media, we may easily find a match for greater humanism and popular interaction in American rock culture through Paul Bowles. In this work, Bowles is re-invented within the postmodern, the postcolonial, and the renegade future underscored by liberal elites that had breathed new life into the American counterculture. Re-Creating Paul Bowles attests to the moments of relentless humanism and imaginative transformation that are most dreamlike, engaging the antagonism of psychology with imperialism at last. In his youth a classical composer and critic, Bowles deserves credit for spawning new generations of rock and pop music through his use of sound and tapping of non-Western or non-European folk music, bringing classic ethnography to the rock generation with Music of Morocco. Re-Creating Paul Bowles examines the Latin American, American, African, and Arab moments of his scholastic effort, a primary beginning for understanding modern popular music’s free transcription of tradition.Re-Creating Paul Bowles includes several examples of films that adapt the author’s personal life and times, the production of surrealist technique in film and literature, and the re-invention of classic works such as The Sheltering Sky and Collected Stories. It assumes the technique for re-production allows the elder Bowles greater freedom in crossing cultural boundaries and overruling the colonialist separateness that guarded cultural content for centuries. Bowles has always deserved re-appraisal in the American academy—and liberation from his stereotypical cult figure identity, a positive force in the ethnic comprehension of Self and society.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-08-29
Mått:152 x 226 x 16 mm
Vikt:322 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:228
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498502849

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Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
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Raj Chandarlapaty is assistant professor of English at the American University in Afghanistan.

Recensioner i media

A remarkable expatriate American, Paul Bowles (1910–1999) has been thoroughly discussed as a writer. He is best known as the author of The Sheltering Sky (1949), a novel made into a brilliant film by Bernardo Bertolucci. Chandarlapaty looks at other dimensions of Bowles's fame. He was the subject of photo essays and documentary films, and he was a composer. He recorded Moroccan folk music. He inspired Beat writers such as William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, who knew him in Tangier. He had an impact on rock music and jazz (the Rolling Stones were fans). Chandarlapaty writes in depth about this major cultural figure, someone deserving the overworked label icon. The research in this book is impressive in the light of Bowles's multidimensional talents. . . .This well-documented book—Chandarlapaty's heavy use of jargon notwithstanding—will serve as a good contribution to the discussion. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above.

Innehållsförteckning

TABLE OF CONTENTSPREFACEPhotography, Music and Films of Paul Bowles: Media Representations and “Post” AnxietiesCHAPTER ONE, PHOTOGRAPHY: Paul Bowles and the Importance of Mystique in the Building of Literary Genius in “Post”-ed TimesTraveler, Mystic and American Heretic: Nutting’s Yesterday’s Perfume: Photographs of Paul and His Hypertexted Reintroduction to the American Literary CanonMany Moroccos: Paul’s Proteges, His Environment, and “Post” IslamHow Could I Send a Picture Into The Desert? Paul Bowles and the Art of DecolonizationCHAPTER TWO, The Musical and Other Sound Recordings of Paul Bowles: Populism, Pop Reinventions of Folklore, and the Rise of Postmodern AlterityPupil, Composer and Critic: Paul Bowles, The Reticent Dean of Popular Music and the Archetype of Sound and HarmonyMeanings and Shared Communities: The Recordings of Moroccan Music and Tribal Religious CultsSound Recordings: Paul Bowles Reads A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard: Postmodern Stereotyping and the Myriad of Kiffed PossibilitiesCHAPTER THREE, LITERARY GEOGRAPHIES, MUSIC AND “POST”-NESS OF THE VIDEO PRESENTATIONS OF PAUL BOWLES: Reinvention and Popularization of the Author and His Anxiety in “Post” Morocco“You Are Not I” and “Baptism of Solitude,” Creative Restatements of Literary Modernism and the “Other”Documentary Films on Paul Bowles: Revisiting the Anxiety of Authorship Through Conversations, Practices and MeditationsBernardo Bertolucci’s The Sheltering Sky: Surrealism, Modernist Re-Invention, and Dialectical Writings of East-West IntertextsBenoit Graffin’s Beach Café: The Metaphor of ‘Post’ Stereotypes and Historical Fantasies Communicating with Modern GeopoliticsHalf Moon and Creating a Legend: Frieder Schlaich’s Re-Creation of the Maghrebi ArchitectConclusion: The Forecasting of Literary GeniusWorks Cited