Women of the Scorched Lands by Agnant, Marie-Célie
Women of the Scorched Lands by Agnant, Marie-Célie
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The poems in this collection are rooted in the contemporary reality of postcolonial societies that navigate between glaring poverty and indecent opulence. Marie-Célie Agnant addresses the themes of memory, exclusion, poverty, disarray, exile, the condition of women and their fight against injustice. Her poetry haunts us and resonates within us like a dull rustling.
In the afterword, Françoise Naudillon aptly sets the tone of the collection: "Marie-Célie Agnant writes for all of us the cursed book of which we are the blackened pages, the book of women and girls, the book of sisters and mothers, the book of the grandmother and the granddaughter, the book of widows and broken lives, the book of nameless suffering, the book of fears and torments, […] the book of silences and lead."
Nine color reproductions of paintings by Haitian artist Donald Mevs illustrate the book.
In the afterword, Françoise Naudillon aptly sets the tone of the collection: "Marie-Célie Agnant writes for all of us the cursed book of which we are the blackened pages, the book of women and girls, the book of sisters and mothers, the book of the grandmother and the granddaughter, the book of widows and broken lives, the book of nameless suffering, the book of fears and torments, […] the book of silences and lead."
Nine color reproductions of paintings by Haitian artist Donald Mevs illustrate the book.
