An excerpt from LES ARBRES MUSICIENS*

Just like every night, the sailors, their bodies, aching from salt spray and fatigue and rolled in their rattan mats, suck a final bit of sugarcane, smoke a final pipe, and dream their nocturnal fantasies and fables about the fairy isle of the Caribs from time immemorial. The first chapter of the novel, translated here for the first time, presents the fictional family of Léonie Osmin, whose three sons are symbolic representatives of the Haitian middle classes at the moment when Haiti entered World War II, by declaration of President EHe Lescot, in late 1941 and early 1942. At the same time, the Catholic Church became part of this political plot in a renewed campaign to eradicate the practice of Vodou, which was the religion of the peasant and working classes (along with many bourgeois and politicians) in Haiti.

Loại tài liệu:

Article

Tác giả:

Jacques-Stephen, Alexis

Đề mục:

Short stories

Nhà xuất bản:

Johns Hopkins University Press

Ngày xuất bản:

Spring 2006

Số trang/ tờ:

pdf

Nguồn gốc:

Callaloo; Baltimore, Volume 29, Issue 2, Spring 2006, Pages 274-288,702

Loại file Tập tin đính kèm Dung lượng Chi tiết
200602C274-288,702.pdf 976652 Kb Xem Tải

An excerpt from LES ARBRES MUSICIENS*

THƯ VIỆN ĐẠI HỌC KHOA HỌC HUẾ