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Aunt Resia and the Spirits and Other Stories
Yanick Lahens
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Description for Aunt Resia and the Spirits and Other Stories
Hardback. Features a collection of the author's short stories such as 'And All This Unease', 'Madness Had Come with the Rain', and 'The Survivors'. Translator(s): Wilson, Betty. Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
The Haiti of Yanick Lahens' path-breaking short fiction is a country demanding our compassion as it reveals to us its horrors. For decades among the forefront of Haitian writers. Lahens has embarked on a renewal of the genre of short stories that she inherited from Caribbean - and especially Haitian - traditions. Through her elliptical and sharp style she succeeds in conveying the authenticity of her people's tragic fight for survival within the scope of our shared human experience. Here is day-to-day life, packed with its myriad emotions, desires, and contradictions, against a backdrop of extraordinary circumstances. The men and ... Read more
The Haiti of Yanick Lahens' path-breaking short fiction is a country demanding our compassion as it reveals to us its horrors. For decades among the forefront of Haitian writers. Lahens has embarked on a renewal of the genre of short stories that she inherited from Caribbean - and especially Haitian - traditions. Through her elliptical and sharp style she succeeds in conveying the authenticity of her people's tragic fight for survival within the scope of our shared human experience. Here is day-to-day life, packed with its myriad emotions, desires, and contradictions, against a backdrop of extraordinary circumstances. The men and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813929002
SKU
V9780813929002
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About Yanick Lahens
In addition to her short fiction. Yanick Lahens has published two novels. Dans la maison du pere and La couleur de l'aube, as well as numerous essays on literature and politics. Betty Wilson teaches in the Department of Literatures in English at the University of the West Indies, Mona. Edwidge Danticat is the author of several acclaimed works of fiction, ... Read more
Reviews for Aunt Resia and the Spirits and Other Stories
"Lahens is the most important living female Haitian author in French. Her short stories in particular demonstrate an art, a style, and a political commitment of the highest caliber. Through the intimate window of Lahens's mode of realism, this collection invites the gaze of the Anglophone world onto her country's unique array of troubles." - Christiane Makward, Pennsylvania State University, ... Read more