عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
PS3555.A424 M37 1999eb
PS3555
.
A424
M37
1999eb
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
058547933X
9780585479330
b724975
The marvelous adventures of Pierre Baptiste :
[Book]
father and mother, first and last : [a novel] /
Patricia Eakins.
New York :
New York University Press,
©1999.
1 online resource (xi, 249 pages)
"Being a true account of the life and times of an African man of letters, a Son of Guinée born into bondage, whose ambitions were realized in STRANGE AND UNEXPECTED WAYS, yet who made his PEACE with several gods and established a REALM of Equality & Freedom & Bounty, in which no creature lives from another's labor."
"Including the tribulations of bondage in the Sugar Isles, Pierre's escape from certain harm to his person, how he was marooned, his friends & religion, his true wife & fishy consorts, his children, born from his mouth like words, physics and metaphysics, cyclopedish histoire, flora, fauna, & mysteriosi, revenge and devotion, divinations, commonplace book."
"New York University Press prize for fiction"--Cover.
A magic-realism novel on an 18th century slave in the Caribbean who becomes a philosopher, writing an encyclopedia on his race. After escaping by sea he lands on an island, is made pregnant by a mermaid and gives birth through his mouth to a quartet of philosofish.
Marvelous adventures of Pierre Baptiste.
0814722091
Savants (Savant syndrome), Fiction.
Slavery-- West Indies, French, Fiction.
Savants (Savant syndrome)
Slavery.
Lesser Antilles, West Indies, French.
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813/
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PS3555
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A424
M37
1999eb
Eakins, Patricia,1942-
20201213075028.0
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