ABSTRACT
The effect of structural media representation is to give the impression that the literary text imitates film, music or images. This chapter provides some examples of how structural principles of painting and photographs can be represented in Biblique des derniers gestes by the Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau. It focuses on approaches to diegetic media representation in literature and film as well as the structural media representation of film and music in literature. The characteristics of cinematic writing are a focus on audiovisual perception, sudden changes in perspective and a narrative point of view that refrains from evaluation and causal connection. Structural representation of cinematic characteristics links the reader effectively to the experience of the victim through the use of frequently changed perspectives and auditory perception and the cinematic handling of space and time, such as the effective use of montage. Representation of musical structures in literature relies on previous knowledge of conventions and contexts of the music referred to.
