#3436: THE RULE OF FRANCOIS ("PAPA DOC") DUVALIER IN TWO NOVELS BY ROGER DORSINVILLE

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 THE RULE OF FRANCOIS ("PAPA DOC") DUVALIER IN TWO NOVELS BY ROGER 
DORSINVILLE
Realism and Magic Realism in Haiti .A critical edition of two translated 
novels (The Mad King and The Creator and the Mad King) from
the French, by Haitian writer Roger Dorsinville (1911-1992) on the rule 
of Francois Duvalier. This volume argues critically that Roger
Dorsinville's novels fit in the tradition of Joseph Conrad's narratives 
exploring the darker side of human and social behavior as well as
the in the Latin American stream of magic realism. This is a contribution 
to scholarship of a Haitian writer's behavior; one which evolves
as it reverses historical referentiality in representation and celebrates 
a norm for goodness located in artistic reflexivity. A number of
critical texts are appended, along with selected bibliography.

Edwin Mellen Press, 0-7734-7830-2    328pp.  2000
-- 
Prof. Roger Dorsinville
City College of The City University of New York
Electrical Engineering Department
140th Street & Convent Avenue
Tel:  212 650 8253
Fax: 212 650 8249
http://www-ee.engr.ccny.cuny.edu/faculty/dorsin.html