Publication

1991-04-01 - Cornell University Press

Language

English

Word Count

70,000 words, Guess

Page Count

280 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100801499275
  • ISBN-139780801499272
  • Goodreads2206499
  • Open LibraryOL7849693M

First Sentence

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. recounts an anecdote about the violent fate of a little-known Francophone writer, who refused to continue living in the prison house of a language imposed by historical circumstances beyond his control: In 1915, Edmond Laforest, a prominent member of the Haitian literary movement called La Ronde, made his death a symbolic, if ironic, statement of the curious relation of the marginalized writer to the act of writing in a [European] language.

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