Ready to Burst by Franketienne

Ready to Burst (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781935744788)

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Ready to Burst by Franketienne

Ready to Burst

$18.00
Ready to Burst by Franketienne

Ready to Burst

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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Ready to Burst follows the lives of two young men and their individual attempts to make sense of the deeply troubled society surrounding them. An informed critique of the "brain drain" prompted by the Duvalier dictatorship, Ready to Burst is, in Frank tienne's words, a portrait of "the extreme bitterness of doom in the face of the blind machinery of power." Widely recognized as Haiti's most important literary figure and an outspoken challenger of political oppression, Frank tienne was a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009. The New York Times has called Frank tienne "the Father of Haitian Letters."

Author: Franketienne
ISBN-10: 193574478X
ISBN-13: 9781935744788
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Language: English
Published: 10/14/2014
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 6.20h x 6.40w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/14/2014
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2014
By Franketienne
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- Author Bio: Born in 1936 in Ravine-Sèche, Haiti, Frankétienne is a prolific novelist, painter, playwright, musician and poet. Widely recognized as Haiti's most important literary figure and an outspoken challenger of political oppression, Frankétienne was a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009. The New York Times has called Frankétienne "the Father of Haitian Letters." He has a unique style, often blending French and Haitian Creole and inventing new words.

- Translator: Kaiama L. Glover received a B.A. in French History and Literature and Afro-American Studies from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in French and Romance Philology from Columbia University. She is now an associate professor of French at Barnard College. Professor Glover's book, Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon (Liverpool UP 2010), addresses the general issue of canon formation in the francophone Caribbean and the particular fate of the Haitian Spiralist authors vis-à-vis this canon.

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