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Masters of the dew / by Jacques Roumain ; translated by Langston Hughes and Mercer Cook.

By:

Roumain, Jacques, 1907-1944

Contributor(s):

Language: English Original language: French New York : Reynal & Hitchcock, [1947]c1947Description: x, 180 pages ; 20 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

Uniform titles:

Gouverneurs de la ros ee. English

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Fiction.

Additional physical formats: Masters of the dew.DDC classification:

843.91

LOC classification:

PZ3.R759
PQ3949.R73 G613 1947

Available additional physical forms:

Also issued online.

Summary: The genre of the peasant novel in Haiti reaches back to the nineteenth century and this is one of the outstanding examples. Manuel returns to his native village after working on a sugar plantation in Cuba only to discover that it is stricken by a drought and divided by a family feud. He attacks the resignation endemic among his people by preaching the kind of political awareness and solidarity he has learned in Cuba. He goes on to illustrate his ideas in a tangible way by finding water and bringing it to the fields through the collective labor of the villagers. In this political fable, Roumain is careful to create an authentic environment and credible characters. Readers will be emotionally moved as well as ideologically persuaded.

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Dickinson, D.C. Hughes, p. 149

The genre of the peasant novel in Haiti reaches back to the nineteenth century and this is one of the outstanding examples. Manuel returns to his native village after working on a sugar plantation in Cuba only to discover that it is stricken by a drought and divided by a family feud. He attacks the resignation endemic among his people by preaching the kind of political awareness and solidarity he has learned in Cuba. He goes on to illustrate his ideas in a tangible way by finding water and bringing it to the fields through the collective labor of the villagers. In this political fable, Roumain is careful to create an authentic environment and credible characters. Readers will be emotionally moved as well as ideologically persuaded.

Also issued online.

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