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From: The Village Voice
Date: 19990921
Author:Tate, Greg

MARYSE CONDE HAULS HEATHCLIFF TO THE CARIBBEAN

Maryse Conde does for Emily Bronte and Wuthering Heights what Bernie Worrell did for Bach: she funkatizes the mother. This is one mean little book, mean in spirit and mean in design. It's mad comical too, but in a cruel-to-the-bone, sadistic kind of way, the kind of book where tortured souls die horribly only to discover there's no peace in the hereafter either.

Conde was born in Guadeloupe but has lived and taught extensively in Africa, Europe, and the United States; presently she teaches in the francophone literature program at Columbia. ...

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