How Long to Read Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature

How Long Does it Take to Read Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 13 minutes to read Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature by Elizabeth Dahab

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Ever since Bessie Smith's powerful voice conspired with the "race records" industry to make her a star in the 1920s, African American writers have memorialized the sounds and theorized the politics of black women's singing. In Black Resonance, Emily J. Lordi analyzes writings by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Gayl Jones, and Nikki Giovanni that engage such iconic singers as Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson, and Aretha Franklin. Focusing on two generations of artists from the 1920s to the 1970s, Black Resonance reveals a musical-literary tradition in which singers and writers, faced with similar challenges and harboring similar aims, developed comparable expressive techniques. Drawing together such seemingly disparate works as Bessie Smith's blues and Richard Wright's neglected film of Native Son, Mahalia Jackson's gospel music and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, each chapter pairs one writer with one singer to crystallize the artistic practice they share: lyricism, sincerity, understatement, haunting, and the creation of a signature voice. In the process, Lordi demonstrates that popular female singers are not passive muses with raw, natural, or ineffable talent. Rather, they are experimental artists who innovate black expressive possibilities right alongside their literary peers. The first study of black music and literature to centralize the music of black women, Black Resonance offers new ways of reading and hearing some of the twentieth century's most beloved and challenging voices.

How long is Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature?

Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature by Elizabeth Dahab is 247 pages long, and a total of 63,479 words.

This makes it 83% the length of the average book. It also has 78% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 46 minutes to read Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature aloud.

What Reading Level is Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature?

Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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