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<p> 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 flamboyant New Orleans keep adding pieces. With the help of his only existing photograph, the present paper focuses on the unquestionable father of jazz, who kept “away from recorded history”.</p>
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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 flamboyant New Orleans keep adding pieces. With the help of his only existing photograph, the present paper focuses on the unquestionable father of jazz, who kept “away from recorded history”.

Reconstructing a Life: Charles ‘Buddy’ Bolden

University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Victor Babeş”

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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Michael Ondaatje’s novel Coming through Slaughter is a fascinating attempt to bring literature and oral history together in order to recreate Charles ‘Buddy’...

Reconstructing a Life: Charles ‘Buddy’ Bolden

Published Online: Feb 21, 2013

Page range: 224 - 239

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10319-012-0022-y

Keywords
fragmentariness, (in)sanity, jazz, memory, New Orleans, oral history

© 2012 by Versita

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Reconstructing a Life: Charles ‘Buddy’ Bolden

Published Online: Feb 21, 2013

Page range: 224 - 239

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10319-012-0022-y

Keywordsfragmentariness, (in)sanity, jazz, memory, New Orleans, oral history

© 2012 by Versita

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
fragmentariness, (in)sanity, jazz, memory, New Orleans, oral history