Reconstructing a Life: Charles ‘Buddy’ Bolden
Michael Ondaatje’s novel Coming through Slaughter is a fascinating attempt to bring literature and oral history together in order to recreate Charles ‘Buddy’ Bolden’s mysterious life. Daily routines and gestures, inner thoughts and high musical notes form a puzzle to which the citizens of the flambo...
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| Language: | English |
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Sciendo
2012-12-01
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| Series: | Romanian Journal of English Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/v10319-012-0022-y |