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050 00 $aPQ3949.2.C65$bB4513 2020
082 00 $a843/.914$223
100 1 $aCondé, Maryse,$eauthor.
240 10 $aBelle Créole.$lEnglish
245 14 $aThe belle Créole /$cMaryse Condé ; translated by Nicole Simek.
264 1 $aCharlottesville :$bUniversity of Virginia Press,$c2020.
264 4 $c©2020
300 $a202 pages ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aCARAF books: Caribbean and African literature translated from French
500 $aTranslated from the French.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $a"The fourteenth novel by this celebrated author centers on an enigmatic crime blamed on a homeless man whose refuge is the ship La Belle Creole, anchored just offshore the city of Port-Mahault. The young gardener Dieudonne Sabrina is acquitted in the murder of his employer--and lover--Loraine, a wealthy white woman descended from plantation owners. Conde follows Dieudonne's desperate wanderings through the city the night of his release, the narrative unfolding through a series of multivoiced flashbacks set against a forbidding backdrop of social disintegration and tumultuous labor strikes in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century Guadeloupe. Twenty-four hours later, Dieudonne's fate becomes suggestively intertwined with that of the French island itself, though the future of both remains uncertain in the end. Echoes of Faulkner and Lawrence, and even Shakespeare's Othello, resonate in this tale, yet the drama's uniquely modern dynamics set it apart from any model in its exploration of love and hate, politics and stereotype, and the attempt to find connections with others across barriers. Through her vividly and intimately drawn characters, Conde paints a rich portrait of a contemporary society grappling with the heritage of slavery, racism, and colonization."--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aHomeless persons$vFiction.
651 0 $aGuadeloupe$vFiction.
650 7 $aHomeless persons.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00959445
651 7 $aGuadeloupe.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01210394
655 7 $aFiction.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423787
655 7 $aSocial problem fiction.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01982507
655 7 $aSocial problem fiction.$2lcgft
655 7 $aFrench fiction$vTranslations into English.$2local
700 1 $aSimek, Nicole Jenette,$d1976-$etranslator.
830 0 $aCARAF books.
852 0 $bbar$hPQ3949.2.C65$iB4513 2020