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Dezafi : a novel / Frankétienne ; translated and with an introduction by Asselin Charles.
Van Pelt Library PQ3949.2.F7 D4913 2018
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frankétienne, author.
- Series:
- Caraf books : Caribbean and African literature translated from French.
- Caraf books : Caribbean and African literature translated from French
- Standardized Title:
- Dezafi. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Zombies--Fiction.
- Zombies.
- Plantations.
- Haiti.
- Plantations--Haiti--Fiction.
- Haiti--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xlii, 200 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville London : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "A translation from the Haitian Kreyol of the first major novel in Haiti's national vernacular. Written in an unconventional style with a number of voices and a combination of myth, poetry, allegory, magical realism, and social realism, Franketienne's Dezafi tells the tale of a plantation that is run and worked by zombies for the financial benefit of the living owner. With the walking dead and bloody cockfights ('dezafi') as cultural metaphors for Haitian existence, Dezafi is ultimately an allegory of political and social liberation"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in Kreyol by Editions Fardin, Port-au-Prince, Haiti."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780813941387
- 0813941385
- 9780813941394
- 0813941393
- OCLC:
- 1057242794
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