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From: myriam chancy <indigodreams44@hotmail.com>
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT:
_The Scorpion's Claw_ (London: Peepal Tree Press, 2005), by Myriam J. A.
Chancy
is now out and available for purchase! You can order it directly from the
publisher at: www.peepaltreepress.com or through the North
American Distributor, Independent Publishers Group, www.ipgbook.com.
You can also order the book, or get more information about it, by
going to the website: www.myriamchancy.com and clicking on
"Publications" and then on the line "Order here" on top of the book
cover; that link will take you directly to the ipgbook page
which can be printed out and taken to your nearest library or bookstore
for ordering.
If any of you have institutional or library connections, please have
the book ordered (you can also print out the bottom of this email
with the ISBN info. in order to do so). Myriam Chancy's first novel,
_Spirit
of Haiti_ is also still available and was shortlisted in the
Caribbean/Canadian Category for Best First Book, Commonwealth
Prize 2004.
Thanks for your support and please pass on this email to anyone
you think may be interested!
Kenbi!
>>Summary of Novel:
>>
>>Resistance, recovery and re-creation go to the heart of this novel,
>>which tells the past and present of two generations of Haitians,
>>tied both by relations of blood and by the shedding of it. In the
>>process, Myriam Chancy narrates the bloody history of the last six
>>centuries of Haiti itself, from the violent years of colonialism and
>>slavery, to the chaotic aftermath of the fall of the Baby Doc
>>regime.
>>In a society in which men in blue stick a gun to their hips and
>>call it their life, and blood runs like rainwater through the
>>streets, a family is flung apart, to the point of shattering. But it
>>is Joshphes act of remembrance, of bringing to voice her
>>grandmother, cousins, friends, and her self, that brings down the
>>barriers of place, time, even death, to bring the family together,
>>and to relieve each of the weight of the past they have had to bear.
>>The power of this challenging, multi-layered novel is in its network
>>of narrative voices which set the poetic against the brutal to
>>striking effect. Joshphe is safe but desperately lonely in Canada;
>>her grandmother dies terrified for her familys future; her cousin
>>Alphonse flees to the USA where he hopes to escape the dark shadow
>>cast by his father; and his half-brother Delphi joins the rebels and
>>pays the heaviest price. Joshphes best friend Desirie also rebels,
>>but finds underground a community with the power to breathe vivid
>>new life into her veins. Within and behind them all stands the
>>amazing figure of Mami Cileste, the mambo who has lived and died
>>four lifetimes and whose tongue can speak the whole history of
>>Haiti, but who is also Delphis mother, Joshphes inspiration,
>>Desiries spiritual saviour, and another victim of the Tonton
>>Macoutes brutality.
>>Their stories are threaded through with ancestral echoes, historical
>>connections, and the powerful mysteries of voodoo rites, all of
>>which come to us through the enchanting rhythms of Haitian Criole.
>>Myriam Chancy has created a deeply important novel, unique in its
>>exploration of the harsh realities of postcolonial Haiti from a
>>womanist perspective, and remarkable because it does so with such
>>insight, sensitivity and poetry.
>>
>>
>>Scorpion's Claw
>>
>>
>>This challenging, multi-layered story is told from a womanist
>>perspective through a network of narrative voices encompassing two
>>generations of Haitians, tied together both by blood relations and
>>bloodshed. In addition to the characters personal struggles with
>>the harsh realities of postcolonial Haiti, the violent history of
>>the last six centuries of the country, from the brutal years of
>>colonialism and slavery to the chaotic aftermath of the fall of the
>>Baby Doc regime, is also explored. The rhythm of the prose echoes
>>Haitian Criole as this dramatic novel unfolds.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Myriam J. A. Chancy was the senior editor of Meridians and a
>>visiting associate professor of womens studies at Smith College.
>>She has taught at Vanderbilt University and Arizona State
>>University. She is the author of Framing Silence and Searching for
>>Safe Spaces, which was awarded an Outstanding Book Award by Choice.
>>Her poetry, short fiction, and essays have appeared in such
>>publications as Black/Renaissance/Noire, Ferry, Fireweed, Litspeak,
>>and The Louisville Review.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Price: $15.95
>>Category: Academic: Fiction, Academic: History
>>Pages: 320
>>Book Type: Paper
>>Size: 5 x 8
>>ISBN: 1900715910
>>
>>Peepal Tree Press Ltd./Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
>
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