Aunt Resia And The Spirits And Other Stories

Author : Yanick Lahens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Short stories, Haitian
ISBN : 0813929016

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The men and women glimpsed in Lahens's stories are confronted with the overwhelming task of simply staying alive. "The Survivors" unfolds under the Duvalier dictatorship and, centered on a group of men who dream of somehow striking out against the regime, shows how fear is passed down from generation to generation. Life is no simpler in the post-Duvalier world of the title story, in which a young man is caught between a mother who lives a devout life filled with self-imposed restrictions and an exuberant Vodouist aunt who makes no apologies for working in the black market. The twelve-year-old girl who narrates "Madness Had Come with the Rain" finds herself swept up in a violent riot following the death of a modern Robin Hood. Lahens' women, although they may act as the poto mitan (or "central pole") in family life and society, experience a particularly grim fate. In the eviction tale "And All This Unease" a beautiful girl reminisces about her happy childhood in the country in order to forget her current life as a prostitute.

Author : Yanick Lahens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0813929008

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Aunt Resia and the Spirits and Other Stories by Yanick Lahens Pdf

The men and women glimpsed in Lahens's stories are confronted with the overwhelming task of simply staying alive. "The Survivors" unfolds under the Duvalier dictatorship and, centered on a group of men who dream of somehow striking out against the regime, shows how fear is passed down from generation to generation. Life is no simpler in the post-Duvalier world of the title story, in which a young man is caught between a mother who lives a devout life filled with self-imposed restrictions and an exuberant Vodouist aunt who makes no apologies for working in the black market. The twelve-year-old girl who narrates "Madness Had Come with the Rain" finds herself swept up in a violent riot following the death of a modern Robin Hood. Lahens' women, although they may act as the poto mitan (or "central pole") in family life and society, experience a particularly grim fate. In the eviction tale "And All This Unease" a beautiful girl reminisces about her happy childhood in the country in order to forget her current life as a prostitute.

Author : Évelyne Trouillot
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780813938103

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Memory at Bay by Évelyne Trouillot Pdf

Winner of the prestigious Prix Carbet--an award won by such distinguished authors as Maryse Condé, Jamaica Kincaid, and Raphaël Confiant-- Memory at Bay is now available in an English translation that brings to life this powerful novel by one of Haiti’s most vital authors, Évelyne Trouillot. Trouillot introduces us to a bedridden widow of a notorious dictator (in effect, a portrait of Papa Doc Duvalier) and the young émigré who attends to her needs but who harbors a secret--the bitter loss she feels for her mother, a victim of the dictator’s atrocities. The story that unfolds is a deftly plotted psychological drama in which the two women in turn relive their radically contrasting accounts of the dictator’s regime. Partly a retelling of Haiti’s nightmarish history under Duvalier, and partly an exploration of the power of memory, Trouillot’s novel takes a suspenseful turn when the aide contemplates murdering the old widow. Memory at Bay was praised by the Prix Carbet committee for the way it treats the enigmas of destiny and for a pairing of characters whose voices bring the narrative to the edge of the ineffable. CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Feminism
ISBN : OSU:32435083774695

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New Books on Women and Feminism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Feminism
ISBN : UCR:31210024308676

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New Books on Women, Gender and Feminism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard García,Robin Cherin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Spanish language
ISBN : 0892390166

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Espíritus de Mi Tía Otilia by Richard García,Robin Cherin Pdf

The wall knockings and bed shakings that always accompany Aunt Otilia's visits do not bother a young boy until the night he sees her skeleton leave her body.

Author : Richard Garcia
Publisher : Childrens Press
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1992-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0516800299

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My Aunt Otilia's Spirits by Richard Garcia Pdf

Author : Yanick Lahens
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781941920572

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Moonbath by Yanick Lahens Pdf

The award-winning saga of a peasant family living in a small Haitian village, told through four generations of voices, recounting through stories of tradition and superstition, voodoo and the new gods, romance and violence, the lives of the women who struggled to hold the family together in an ever-shifting landscape of political turmoil and economic suffering.

Author : Swintha Danielsen
Publisher : Phoenix Books, Inc.
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9057891557

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Baure by Swintha Danielsen Pdf

This book is first and foremost a grammatical description of Baure, a seriously endangered language from Bolivian Amazonia. Baure belongs to the Southern Arawak language family and it forms part of the Guapor -Mamor linguistic area. This book is the first detailed and comprehensive grammatical description of Baure, covering its phonology, morphology, syntax, and discourse stucture. It is based on the author's extensive fieldwork in Bolivia in 2003, 2004, and 2006. The book furthermore addresses the historical, cultural, and sociolinguistic background of the speakers of Baure. Special attention is given to th e complex (morpho)phonological processes within a phonological phrase, the rich noun classification system, the distinction of verbal and non-verbal predicates with respect to the argument marking pattern, the three-level distinction of verbal morphology, and specific clause types based on different nominalization strategies, which also play an important role in clause subordination. The relation to the surrounding Southern Arawak languages Trinitario, Ignaciano, and Paunaca is investigated through comparison of the lexicon and the grammar. The appendices contain different text types, lists of grammatical morphemes, classifiers, and the Swadesh 200 word list. It is a highly valuable addition to our knowledge of South American languages and cultures in general and the Arawak languages in particular. This book is aimed at linguists from all backgrounds and is of special interest to typologists, historical linguists, Arawakanists, Americanists, and anthropologists. It is also an important record of a dying language for its speech community and their descendants.

Author : Mary Snell-Hornby
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027293831

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The Turns of Translation Studies by Mary Snell-Hornby Pdf

What’s new in Translation Studies? In offering a critical assessment of recent developments in the young discipline, this book sets out to provide an answer, as seen from a European perspective today. Many “new” ideas actually go back well into the past, and the German Romantic Age proves to be the starting-point. The main focus lies however on the last 20 years, and, beginning with the cultural turn of the 1980s, the study traces what have turned out since then to be ground-breaking contributions (new paradigms) as against what was only a change in position on already established territory (shifting viewpoints). Topics of the 1990s include nonverbal communication, gender-based Translation Studies, stage translation, new fields of interpreting studies and the effects of new technologies and globalization (including the increasingly dominant role of English). The author’s aim is to stimulate discussion and provoke further debate on the current profile and future perspectives of Translation Studies.

Author : Yanick Lahens
Publisher : Seren
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781781720592

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The Colour of Dawn by Yanick Lahens Pdf

Port au Prince, Haiti. The police roam the streets and no-one is safe. Fignolé, musician and political radical is missing. His sisters Joyeuse and Angelique search for their young brother amid the colour, bustle, deprivation and political tension of the city. Everntually they will find him, but in the process they will also have found more about themselves than they wanted to know. One day and three lives in a city where love is hard to find, life is cheap and death is all too familioar. A tense, passionate and viivdly told story of small victories of hope in the face of a seemingly impossible fight against a monolithic regime. "Writing so beautiful it takes your breath away" - Le Mode Diplomatique Winner of the RFO Award; the Prix Millepages and the Prix Litterataire Richelieu de la Francophonie.

Author : Glenn Darragh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : English
ISBN : 8478733469

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A to Zed, A to Zee by Glenn Darragh Pdf

Author : Regina Maria Roche
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1807
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KUL:KULGB008851

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The Children of the Abbey: a Tale by Regina Maria Roche Pdf

Author : Lilas Desquiron
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0813917530

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Reflections of Loko Miwa by Lilas Desquiron Pdf

A novel on Haiti during the regime of Francois Duvalier. The protagonists are a group of women in the countryside who bear the brunt of reprisals against revolutionaries by the Tontons Macoutes.

Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Asia
ISBN : YALE:39002005005815

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The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East by Marco Polo Pdf