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After the dance : a walk through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti / Edwidge Danticat.
Penn Museum Library GT4226.J33 D35 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-
- Series:
- Crown Journeys series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carnival--Haiti--Jacmel.
- Carnival.
- Jacmel (Haiti)--Social life and customs.
- Jacmel (Haiti).
- Haiti--Jacmel.
- Physical Description:
- 158 pages : map ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crown Journeys, [2002]
- Summary:
- One of Haiti's most acclaimed native daughters returns to her homeland to celebrate her first Carnival, taking readers on a journey beyond the hedonistic surface and into the heart of the celebration. She also explores the area's hills and rainforests, confronting the island's tension between beauty and destruction and its often surreal history.
- Notes:
- Map on lining papers.
- ISBN:
- 0609609084
- OCLC:
- 49226319
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