| Leonora: The Buried Story of Guadeloupe Contributor(s): Bebel-Gisler, Dany (Author) |
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ISBN: 081391518X ISBN-13: 9780813915180 Publisher: University of Virginia Press OUR PRICE: $24.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1995 Annotation: Leonora is very important text that, as it follows the different stages of Leonora's development, introduces the reader to the political, social, and personal struggles of a segment of Guadeloupean society whose story is seldom told. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 94-26127 |
| Series: Caraf Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated fro |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 6.05" W x 9.06" (1.08 lbs) 284 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Leonara is a first in francophone Caribbean literature: neither fiction nor biography, this book by sociologist and Creole-culture advocate Dany Bebel-Gisler has elements of both novelistic and documentary style. It has been likened to the Latin-American testimonio genre (testimony novel). The real-life Leonara- model for and subject of this book- told Bebel-Gisler that "in this book made up of my words, it is my very self that is present. You have written the story just as I have told it" In the course of her life, Leonara has witnessed, from her perspective as the mother of a large family, the passage of Guadeloupe from colony to departement of France; from the hard-scrabble subsistence agriculture of the rural poor to the subsudized consumer economy of France's overseas departements today. Along the way she offers witty and pungent observations on language, politics, sex, and religion. |