A Haitian's coming of age in 1959 in the postcolonial light and shadow of Castro and Duvalier. (Caribbean studies; v.18)

by Dorsinville, Max

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Edwin Mellen Pr., 2005. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This experimental text "is a first-person narrative that puts to the test the boundaries between fiction and History" (from the foreword). Presented in diary form, it describes one year (1959) in the life of a sixteen-year-old Haitian teenager, Jacques Narcisse Jr., as he comes to terms with his Antillean background and his upbringing in the U.S. and Canada. The narrative begins in French and then shifts to English, symbolizing the poles of cultural integration Jacques is called upon to accept. Dorsinville uses the literary device of an unseen narrator, who later finds the diary, as a means of commenting on its contents. He teaches Caribbean, postcolonial, and modernist literature at McGill U. (©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR)

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