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The Dancing Other

BuchGebunden
256 Seiten
Englisch
Seagull Bookserschienen am08.01.2019
The Dancing Other takes readers to France and Martinique to reveal the struggles of people who belong both places, but never quite feel at home in either. Suzanne Dracius tells the story of Rehvana, a woman who feels she is too black to fit in when living in mainland France, yet at the same time not dark-skinned enough to feel truly accepted in the Caribbean. Her sense of dislocation manifests itself at first in a turn to a mythical idea of Mother Africa; later, she moves to Martinique with a new boyfriend and thinks she may have finally found her place but instead she is soon pregnant, isolated, and lonely. Soon her only reliable companion is her neighbor, Ma Cidalise, who regales her in Creole with supernatural tales of wizards. Rehvana, meanwhile, watches her dream of belonging fade, as she continues to refuse to accept her multicultural heritage.mehr

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KlappentextThe Dancing Other takes readers to France and Martinique to reveal the struggles of people who belong both places, but never quite feel at home in either. Suzanne Dracius tells the story of Rehvana, a woman who feels she is too black to fit in when living in mainland France, yet at the same time not dark-skinned enough to feel truly accepted in the Caribbean. Her sense of dislocation manifests itself at first in a turn to a mythical idea of Mother Africa; later, she moves to Martinique with a new boyfriend and thinks she may have finally found her place but instead she is soon pregnant, isolated, and lonely. Soon her only reliable companion is her neighbor, Ma Cidalise, who regales her in Creole with supernatural tales of wizards. Rehvana, meanwhile, watches her dream of belonging fade, as she continues to refuse to accept her multicultural heritage.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-85742-479-2
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr2019
Erscheinungsdatum08.01.2019
Seiten256 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 155 mm, Höhe 231 mm, Dicke 28 mm
Gewicht544 g
Artikel-Nr.42586232
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Author and playwright Suzanne Dracius was born in Fort-de-France, Martinique, and grew up in Sceaux, a suburb of Paris. She later returned to Martinique as a professor of classical literature, and she has been a visiting professor at the University of Georgia and Ohio University. Nancy Naomi Carlson is a translator. Her translation of Abdourahman Waberi's The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper was named a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award in 2016. Catherine Maigret Kellogg is a translator who was born and raised in France and moved to the United States almost twenty years ago.