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Features a collection of the author's short stories such as 'And All This Unease', 'Madness Had Come with the Rain', and 'The Survivors'.
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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
--Christiane Makward, Pennsylvania State University "coeditor of Plays by French and Francophone Women: A Critical Anthology "About the Author
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, including Breath, Eyes, Memory. Marie-Agnes Sourieau is Professor of French at Fairfield University.
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- PublisherUniversity of Virginia Press
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0813929016
- ISBN 13 9780813929019
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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Softcover. Condition: Good. The Haiti of Yanick Lahens's 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 women glimpsed in Lahens's stories are confronted with the overwhelming task of simply staying alive. "The Survivors" unfolds under the Duvalier dictatorship. The story, 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 aunt who religiously serves the spirits of Vodou but 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. Lahenss 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.Yanick Lahens presents testimonies, opens intimacies, sometimes offers hope, but always returns to the despair afflicting Haiti, because lying within it is the key to her country. The first collection of Lahens's unforgettable short stories available in English, this volume will bring one of the most important voices in contemporary literature to the wider audience it deserves. Seller Inventory # SONG0813929016
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