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Article: Haiti.(Review)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- March 22, 1999
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Edwidge Danticat. The Farming of Bones. New York. Soho. 1998. 312 pages. $23. ISBN 1-56947-126-6.
Readers of Caribbean literature are no strangers to the harsh conditions of the cane field, particularly in the French Antilles during the early twentieth century. Joseph Zobel in La Rue Cases-Negres (1950; Eng. Black Shack Alley) and Simone Schwarz-Bart in Pluie et vent sur Telumee Miracle (1972; Eng. The Bridge of the Beyond) graphically related the degradation that workers endured to eke out a subsistence living. However, it is the second novel by Edwidge Danticat, The Farming of Bones, which is the focus of another aspect of the history of cane workers, the ...