Ready to Burst by Kaiama L Glover

Ready to Burst by Kaiama L Glover

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 Franketienne's words, a portrait of 'the extreme bitterness of doom in the face of the blind machinery of power.' Widely recognised as Haiti's most important literary figure, Franketienne was a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009.'

- 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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ISBN 13	9781935744788
ISBN 10	193574478X
Title	Ready to Burst
Author	Kaiama L Glover
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Archipelago Books
Year published	2014-10-14
Number of pages	240
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