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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jean jonassaint”
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  • The Noose

    A Play

    by Frankétienne, Jean Jonassaint ...
    Translated by Asselin Charles ...
    Series series Global Black Writers in Translation
    The Noose (also known as Pèlin-Tèt) focuses on the lives of two Haitian immigrants living in a grubby basement apartment in New York City in 1978. One, Polydor, is a middle-class intellectual and political refugee. The other, Pyram, is a lower-class laborer. For the sake of saving money, the two have been sharing the apartment for three years. While Pyram is away working, Polydor apparently does ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Dézafi

    by Frankétienne, Jean Jonassaint ...
    Translated by Asselin Charles ...
    Series series CARAF Books
    Dézafi is no ordinary zombie novel. In the hands of the great Haitian author known simply as Frankétienne, zombification takes on a symbolic dimension that stands as a potent commentary on a country haunted by a history of slavery. Now this dynamic new translation brings this touchstone in Haitian literature—the first book ever published in Haitian Creole—to English-language readers for the first ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • French Civilization and Its Discontents

    Nationalism, Colonialism, Race

    by Georges Van Den Abbeele, Janet Bergstrom, Hafid Gafaiti, Edouard Glissant, Donna Hunter, Jean Jonassaint, Valerie Kaussen, Ethan Kleinberg, Driss Maghraoui, Patricia A. Morton0, Tyler Stovall1, Richard Terdiman3, Lyn Thompson4, Nancy Wood5, Winifred Woodhull6, Ali Yedes7 ...
    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    What happens when the study of French is no longer coterminous with the study of France? French Civilization and Its Discontents explores the ways in which considerations of difference, especially colonialism, postcolonialism, and race, have shaped French culture and French studies in the modern era. Rejecting traditional assimilationist notions of French national identity, contributors to this ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • Scaffolding

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  • Last Words from Montmartre

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  • Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie (Book Analysis)

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