NOISY SOUNDS! It's a Listening Affair:Jazz Aesthetic, Improvisation, and Womanism in M. NourbeSe Philip's She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks

作     者：Thao Ho 

作者机构：Humboldt University of Berlin 

出 版 物：《Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures》 (外国语言与文化（英文）)

年 卷 期：2021年第5卷第1期

页      面：53-69,155页

学科分类：0502[文学-外国语言文学] 05[文学] 

主　　题：improvisation jazz aesthetic African American poetry womanism politics of listening 

摘      要：Black writers adapted jazz music to“say the unsayableor employed the“jazz aesthetic,which includes improvisation,citation,and variation as a stylistic device to distance their literature from European forms of *** elements can also be found in *** Philipp poetry collection She Tries Her Tongue,Her Silence Sofily Breaks(1988)which rigorously challenges the way language and words are *** denounces the Western ideology of non-ambiguity,dichotomies,and narration altogether by engaging the reader as jazz musicians engage their *** role did music play in the Black resistance?What is the“jazz aestheticand how is it incorporated into Black diasporic literature?How does jazz music create community and how did Black female musicians speak up in a rather hypermasculine jazz universe?How does Philip incorporate the jazz aesthetic,improvisation,and womanist thoughts in her poems?And what is the intention of noise,dissonance,and(musical)violence?