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• W244149288 abstract "Resia and the Spirits and Other Stories. By Yanick Lahens, translated by Betty Wilson, foreword by Edwidge Danticat, afterword by Marie-Agnes Sourieau. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press. CARAF Books, 2010. ISBN 978-0-81392900-2 (cloth), 978-0-8139-2901-9 (paperback). 224 pp. $55.00 cloth, $21.50 paperback. This translation of a major contemporary Haitian writer is long overdue. Yanick Lahens is a well-known essayist, short story writer, novelist, and social activist. Born in Haiti in 1953, Lahens pursued her high school and university studies in France before returning to Haiti to teach at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Port-au-Prince. While teaching, she also served as a literary editor for the Haitian publishing house Henri Imprimerie Henri Deschamps, worked for the Ministry of Culture (199697), and directed the 1998 project The Slave Road in Haiti. Before turning to fiction, Lahens published literary criticism, focusing first on the works of William Faulkner and Marie Vieux Chauvet. Her first book, L'exil: entre l'ancrage et la fuite, l'ecrivain haitien (1990), analyzed the problem of identity faced by Haitian writers since Haitian independence and the new possibilities they have encountered in post-Duvalierist Haiti. In 1994, Lahens turned to writing fiction, publishing short stories, a genre in which she excels. Some of them, (The Blue Room, Moonbathing) have been anthologized previously in translation. Recently, her story Who is That Man? appeared in Haiti Noir, a volume edited by Edwidge Danticat. In 2000, Lahens published her first novel, Dans la maison du pere, a bildungsroman of a Haitian woman who discovers the African roots of her culture. Her second novel, La couleur de l'aube, was published both in France (Sabine Wespieser Editeur) and in Haiti (Editions Presses Nationales d'Haiti) in 2008. This work portrays the anxiety of three women, two sisters with radically different personalities and their mother, over the course of a day, as they await the return home of their brother and son. As the disenfranchised neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince succumb to political violence, the women take turns expressing their hopes and fears. More recently, Lahens published an essay about the earthquake and the post-earthquake period, Failles (2011). Resia and the Spirits and Other Stories includes seventeen short stories from three different volumes: Tante Resta et les dieux (L'Harmattan, 1994), La petite corruption (Editions Memoire, 1999), and La folie etait venue avec la pluie (Presses Nationales d'Haiti, 2006). Lahens's stories span Haitian culture and history from the early fifties to contemporary pre-earthquake Haiti, although some of her descriptions of the capital uncannily evoke a city comparable to post-earthquake Port-au-Prince. Several stories take place in rural Haiti and focus on customs, rituals, and the supernatural, especially in the first two volumes (Death in July, Aunt Resia and the Spirits, Moonbathing). Others evoke both the fear and the resistance of the youth during the Duvalier regime. The Survivors and The Blue Room are particularly effective in communicating the atmosphere of the time, the precautions taken to minimize exposure to danger, the silences and secrets in families, the whispers across neighborhoods, and the audacity of the youth, with its ordinary heroes and villains. Some stories articulate very movingly the desires and anxieties of young men and women of the lower classes who navigate the idiosyncrasies of their marginalized neighborhoods, the dangers of various temptations, the political instabilities, and the bad luck of being at the wrong place at the wrong time. …" @default.
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