Aunt Resia And The Spirits And Other Stories
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Aunt Resia And The Spirits And Other Stories
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Author : Yanick Lahens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Aunt Resia And The Spirits And Other Stories written by Yanick Lahens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Short stories, Haitian categories.
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.
Aunt Resia And The Spirits And Other Stories
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Author : Yanick Lahens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Aunt Resia And The Spirits And Other Stories written by Yanick Lahens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Fiction categories.
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.
My Aunt Otilia S Spirits
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Author : Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann/Raintree
Release Date : 1992-01
My Aunt Otilia S Spirits written by Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers and has been published by Heinemann/Raintree this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01 with categories.
Memory At Bay
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Author : Évelyne Trouillot
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2015-08-18
Memory At Bay written by Évelyne Trouillot and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-18 with Fiction categories.
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
My Aunt Otilia S Spirits
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Author : Richard Garcia
language : en
Publisher: Childrens Press
Release Date : 1992-03-01
My Aunt Otilia S Spirits written by Richard Garcia and has been published by Childrens Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-03-01 with categories.
New Books On Women Gender And Feminism
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
New Books On Women Gender And Feminism written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Feminism categories.
New Books On Women And Feminism
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
New Books On Women And Feminism written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Feminism categories.
Baure
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Author : Swintha Danielsen
language : en
Publisher: Phoenix Books, Inc.
Release Date : 2007
Baure written by Swintha Danielsen and has been published by Phoenix Books, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
The Turns Of Translation Studies
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Author : Mary Snell-Hornby
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2006-06-09
The Turns Of Translation Studies written by Mary Snell-Hornby and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
Moonbath
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Author : Yanick Lahens
language : en
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Release Date : 2017-09-25
Moonbath written by Yanick Lahens and has been published by Deep Vellum Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-25 with Fiction categories.
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.
