Voices from Madagascar Voix de Madagascar An Anthology of Contemporary Francophone Literature/Anthologie de Littï¿½rature Francophone Contemporaine

Name: Voices from Madagascar Voix de Madagascar An Anthology of Contemporary Francophone Literature/Anthologie de Littï¿½rature Francophone Contemporaine
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ISBN: 9780896802186

ISBN-10: 0896802183

ISBN-13: 9780896802186

Edition: 2001

Authors: Jacques Bourgeacq, Liliane Ramarosoa

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There is currently in Madagascar a rich literary production (short stories, poetry, novels, plays) that has not yet reached the United States for lack of diffusion outside the country. Until recently, Madagascar suffered from political isolation resulting from its breakup with France in the 1970s and the eighteen years of Marxism that followed.With little hope that their voices would be heard outside the island, writers nevertheless have continued to express themselves in French (alongside a literature written in the Malagasy language). Malagasy literature in French had begun in the colonial era with three poets: Jean–Joseph Rabearivelo, Jacques Rabemananjara, and Flavien Ranaivo, all three…

Book details

Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publication date: 4/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 339
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction


The Pioneers (Selected Poems)


O my mother, I awake from a melodious dream


One word, Isle


Regrets


Old Merina Theme


Far from Iarive ...


Of Spring


Short Stories


Funeral of a Pig


Little Bone


The Rich Child


Case Closed


Grandma


Grandmother


Wretched Sun


The President's Mirror


Walk No Work


God Will Come Down to Earth Tomorrow!


In the Top of the Aloalo


Poetry (Selected Poems)


Isabelle


You Are Handsome


Thrive on It


The Wreck


Dina


Dusk


Crematorium Poems


There's peace ...


My heart


Me!


Island!


And Long Live ...


The habit of writing ...


You see


Island Cries


Island Cries


Death to the Rats


Sewers


Transes


Advocates


Odors


In My Image


Silent Breathing


Father, You who are present here


Dadamanga (Blue-skinned father)


When I see


Breath probes


Island


Lovely woman


A buried and neglected history


My hand beholds


Light would not be


Cacomany


Don't Go


By Way of Flowers


There Is ... You


In-gra-ti-tu-de!


Beggar's Refrain


Close Your Eyes


This Country of Mine


Raha Mbola Misy


If You Can Still


Fotsiny


Simply


Laingalainga...


You May Lie in Vain


Notes


Bibliography