Dezafi :: a novel /

"A translation from the Haitian Kreyol of the first major novel in Haiti's national vernacular. Written in an unconventional style with a number of voices and a combination of myth, poetry, allegory, magical realism, and social realism, Franketienne's Dezafi tells the tale of a planta...

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1. Verfasser: Frankétienne (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Charles, Asselin, 1950- (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
French
Veröffentlicht: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
Schriftenreihe:CARAF books.
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Zusammenfassung:"A translation from the Haitian Kreyol of the first major novel in Haiti's national vernacular. Written in an unconventional style with a number of voices and a combination of myth, poetry, allegory, magical realism, and social realism, Franketienne's Dezafi tells the tale of a plantation that is run and worked by zombies for the financial benefit of the living owner. With the walking dead and bloody cockfights ('dezafi') as cultural metaphors for Haitian existence, Dezafi is ultimately an allegory of political and social liberation"--
Beschreibung:"Originally published in Kreyol by Editions Fardin, Port-au-Prince, Haiti."
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xlii, 200 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780813941400
0813941407

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