Dezafi : a novel / Frankétienne ; translated and with an introduction by Asselin Charles.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Caraf books : Caribbean and African literature translated from FrenchPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2018]Description: xlii, 200 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780813941387 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780813941394 (softcover : alk. paper)
Uniform titles:
  • Dezafi. English
DDC classification:
  • 843/.914 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ3949.2.F7 D4913 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.
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"Originally published in Kreyol by Editions Fardin, Port-au-Prince, Haiti."

"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.

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