| Festival of the Greasy Pole Contributor(s): Depestre, Rene (Author), Drame, K. (Editor), Arnold, A. J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0813912814 ISBN-13: 9780813912813 Publisher: University of Virginia Press OUR PRICE: $49.01 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1990 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 89-78318 |
| Series: Caraf Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated fro |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 5.58" W x 8.68" (0.95 lbs) 194 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This novel, published for the first time in English, is one of the most important statements about the Duvalier regime in Haiti, written by a Haitian who played a prominent role in the revolutionary movement that brought down the Lescot regime in January 1946. Depestre's ironic note denying historical origins for the novel does not obscure the scathing caricature of Papa Doc Duvalier and the bloodbath that he visited on his own country, which is called "Zacharyland" after the fictionalized President-for-life Zoocrates Zachary. |