Popa Singer (CARAF Books)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2016
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780813951447
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780813951423
- Publisher:
- University of Virginia Press
- Date of Addition:
- 04/26/24
- Copyrighted By:
- Éditions Zulma
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Literature and Fiction
- Grade Levels:
- Graduate Student
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Translator:
- Professor Kaiama L. Glover