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The Bridge of Beyond. B orn in on the southwest coast of France, Caribbean writer Simone Schwarz-Bart spent her childhood in Guadeloupe, an island in the Lesser Antilles. She later studied in Paris, where she met and would marry the French writer André Schwarz-Bart, with whom she has co-authored a number of works. Simone Schwarz-Bart's The Bridge of Beyond tells the story of two beautiful women, Toussine Lougandor and her granddaughter, Telume. Toussine, born onto the French West Indian island of Guadalupe shortly after the abolition of slavery, is a woman with a large heart and deep bltadwin.ru by:  · A masterpiece of Caribbean literature, The Bridge of Beyond relates the triumph of a generous and hopeful spirit, while offering a gorgeously lush, imaginative depiction of the flora, landscape, and customs of Gua­deloupe. Simone Schwarz-Bart’s incantatory prose, interwoven with Creole proverbs and lore, appears here in a remarkable translation by Barbara bltadwin.ru: New York Review Books.

Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle by Simone Schwarz-Bart, Alfred Fralin, , Heinemann Educational Books edition, in English The bridge of beyond ( edition) | Open Library Donate ♥. Busia, Abena P.A. "This Gift of Metaphor: Symbolic Strategies and the Triumph of Survival in Simone Schwarz-Bart's The Bridge of Beyond." Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean Women and Literature. Eds. Carole Boyce Davies and Elaine Savory Fido. Lawrenceville, NJ: Africa World Press, Black Literature Criticism Supplement. Detroit. Schwarz-Bart, Simone Born in Guadeloupe and now living in France, Ms Schwarz-Bart wrote in her novel, The Bridge of Beyond, of "the most oppressed and proudest Negroes" of Guadeloupe. The.

A masterpiece of Caribbean literature, The Bridge of Beyond relates the triumph of a generous and hopeful spirit, while offering a gorgeously lush, imaginative depiction of the flora, landscape, and customs of Gua­deloupe. Simone Schwarz-Bart’s incantatory prose, interwoven with Creole proverbs and lore, appears here in a remarkable translation by Barbara Bray. Simone Schwarz-Bart's classic novel The Bridge of Beyond, which will be released by NYRB on Aug, is an ode to the spirit of the women of Guadeloupe in the Lesser Antilles, caught between a colonial past and an uncertain future. In her prose, Schwarz-Bart captures the rhythm of language in Guadeloupe, as well as the longevity of folk traditions, spirits and magic, alongside a Christianity brought to the islands by French colonists. The Bridge of Beyond - Simone Schwarz-Bart - Google Books. This is an intoxicating tale of love and wonder, mothers and daughters, spiritual values and the grim legacy of slavery on the French.