Windward Heights

by Conde, Maryse; Philcox, Richard

• ISBN13: 9781569472163
• ISBN10: 1569472165
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Soho Press

Summary

Prizewinning writer Maryse Conde reimagines Emily Bronte's passionate novel as a tale of obsessive love between the "African" Rayze and Cathy, the mulatto daughter of the man who takes Rayze in and raises him, but whose treatment goads him into rebellious flight. Retaining the emotional power of the original, Conde shows us Caribbean society in the wake of emancipation.

Author Biography

Maryse Condé is the author of I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem, Tree of Life, Crossing the Mangrove, and The Last of the African Kings, among others. She is the recipient of the prestigious French award, the alternative Nobel Prize for literature, Le Grand Prix Littéraire de la Femme, and a Guggenheim Fellow. She is a professor of French Caribbean Literature at Columbia University. She and her husband Richard Philcox, who masterfully translated Windward Heights, divide their time between New York City and Guadeloupe.

Table of Contents

Part One: Cuba - Guadeloupe
Cuba
The Procession at Epiphany and the Events that Followed	3	(8)
The Burial of the Babalawo	11	(5)
The Crossing
Nelly Raboteur's Tale	16	(8)
Nelly Raboteur's Tale (continued)	24	(9)
Guadeloupe
The Return of Razye	33	(11)
Justin Gagneur's Tale	44	(7)
The Belles-Feuilles Plantation	51	(11)
A Forest Sojourn	62	(5)
Lucinda Lucius' Tale	67	(13)
Lucinda Lucius' Tale (continued)	80	(4)
The Wake and Cathy's Story	84	(12)
Life Repeats Itself	96	(4)
Irmine de Linsseuil's Tale	100	(10)
Mabo Julie's Tale	110	(5)
The Past Recaptured	115	(12)
Part Two: Guadeloupe
A Meeting Fraught with Consequences	127	(10)
Return to the Belles-Feuilles Plantation	137	(11)
Losers Will Be Losers	148	(7)
Sanjita the Housekeeper's Tale	155	(11)
Etiennise, Sanjita's Daughter's Tale	166	(11)
Back to Earth	177	(7)
Barbaric Nuptials	184	(10)
Mabo Sandrine's Tale	194	(8)
The Farewell Ceremony	202	(8)
The Farewell Ceremony (continued)	210	(5)
Madhi's Tale	215	(8)
Part Three: Marie-Galante
O! Island in the Sun	223	(10)
The School Mistress and Razye II	233	(9)
Romaine the Servant's Tale	242	(9)
Political Meeting at Grand-Anse	251	(10)
A Well-Kept Secret	261	(7)
Death of the Worlf	268	(9)
Death of the Wolf (continued)	277	(11)
Roro the Fisherman's Tale	288	(8)
By Way of a First Epilogue	296	(7)
Part Four: Roseau
Life in Roseau	303	(11)
Season of Migration	314	(9)
Ada the Fishwife's Tale	323	(7)
Farewell to the Beloved	330	(7)
Part Five: Guadeloupe
Return To My Native Land	337	(8)
Return to l'Engoulvent	345