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Author: René Depestre Publisher: University of Virginia Press ISBN: 0813951445 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 141
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The latest novel by one of Haiti’s most brilliant writers The most recent book by the renowned Haitian novelist, essayist, and poet René Depestre, Popa Singer is a semiautobiographical chronicle of Haiti in the late 1950s, the very moment when the country first came under decades of despotic rule. To celebrate her son’s return home after years of exile, Dianira Fontoriol (aka “Popa Singer”)—an indomitable mother armed only with her sewing machine and her personal convictions—determines to resist in her own way the infamous Ubu King of the Tropics: François “Papa Doc” Duvalier. Depestre’s novel tells the story of this at once intimate and epic struggle. Combining colorful fantasy and biting social satire, it is a deeply personal and singularly artistic take on an infamous chapter in Haitian history.
Author: René Depestre Publisher: University of Virginia Press ISBN: 0813951445 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 141
Book Description
The latest novel by one of Haiti’s most brilliant writers The most recent book by the renowned Haitian novelist, essayist, and poet René Depestre, Popa Singer is a semiautobiographical chronicle of Haiti in the late 1950s, the very moment when the country first came under decades of despotic rule. To celebrate her son’s return home after years of exile, Dianira Fontoriol (aka “Popa Singer”)—an indomitable mother armed only with her sewing machine and her personal convictions—determines to resist in her own way the infamous Ubu King of the Tropics: François “Papa Doc” Duvalier. Depestre’s novel tells the story of this at once intimate and epic struggle. Combining colorful fantasy and biting social satire, it is a deeply personal and singularly artistic take on an infamous chapter in Haitian history.
Author: René Depestre Publisher: ISBN: 9782843047657 Category : Languages : fr Pages : 153
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Pour fêter dignement le retour de son fils au pays, Popa Singer, matriarche éclairée et indéboulonnable, armée de sa seule machine à coudre et de son utopie personnelle, est bien résolue à résister à sa manière à l'Ubu Roi des Tropiques, le plus atrocement absurde que les Grandes Antilles aient subi : Duvalier, alias Papa Doc. Popa Singer va raconter l'histoire de ce duel à Jacmel, ville natale de l'auteur, comme García Márquez racontait le Macondo de la famille Buendia dans Cent ans de solitude. Tout le récit tient dans une éloquente dialectique entre la monstruosité aberrante de Papa Doc et cette « maman-bobine de fil » qui « fera planer son cerf-volant enchanté dans l'azur féminin de l'histoire, en mère nourricière, ravie d'alimenter en brins de toute beauté la machine Singer à coudre les beaux draps d'un réel-merveilleux germano-haïtien. » La fantaisie rabelaisienne se propage en nomenclatures fantasques qui sont en soi des morceaux de bravoure dignes du Mangeclous d'Albert Cohen. S'il témoigne avec une joyeuse férocité de l'épouvantable caprice du président à vie, le romancier des enjouements amoureux, styliste hors pair et maître d'une langue incomparablement inventive, mêlant allègre faconde et humour au vitriol, ne lâche rien de son verbe en transe ludique, véritable incendie d'allusions et de métaphores pour dire un monde de folie.
Author: Publisher: World Scientific ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 1001
Author: Edward Komara Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135958319 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 1274
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The Blues Encyclopedia is the first full-length authoritative Encyclopedia on the Blues as a musical form. While other books have collected biographies of blues performers, none have taken a scholarly approach. A to Z in format, this Encyclopedia covers not only the performers, but also musical styles, regions, record labels and cultural aspects of the blues, including race and gender issues. Special attention is paid to discographies and bibliographies.
Author: Isaac Goldbring Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110768283 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 498
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Continuous model theory is an extension of classical first order logic which is best suited for classes of structures which are endowed with a metric. Applications have grown considerably in the past decade. This book is dedicated to showing how the techniques of continuous model theory are used to study C*-algebras and von Neumann algebras. This book geared to researchers in both logic and functional analysis provides the first self-contained collection of articles surveying the many applications of continuous logic to operator algebras that have been obtained in the last 15 years.
Author: Will Friedwald Publisher: Pantheon ISBN: 0375421491 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 833
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An extensive biographical and critical survey of more than 300 jazz and popular singers is comprised of provocative, opinionated essays that incorporate the views of peers, fans and critics while assessing key movements and genres.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 96
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In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
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