Emilia. Matriarch of Progreso (Belize). - Couverture souple

Victor Manuel Duran

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1937030644 ISBN 13 : 9781937030643

Editeur : The University Press of the South, 2019

Synopsis

Sometimes in literature an atypical character can be emblematic of a whole country. It was certainly true with Jean Valjean, unforgettable hero of French Victor Hugo s novel, Les misérables, as well as with José Arcadio Buendía, Macondo patriarch of Colombian Gabriel García Márquez s novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude; or with the title character of North American Mark Twain s novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Emilia Olivera, a real and humble woman, a native of the Central American country of Belize, becomes, thanks to Víctor Manuel Durán s literary talent, the true embodiment of the Belizean woman, a proud unbreakable spirit, a demanding mother and a loyal companion, who was able, with grace and determination, to face both joyful events and harsh tragedies during her long life in Progreso, a village in the Corozal District in the country of Belize. Beyond the struggles for survival of an individual and her family through several generations, Víctor Manuel Durán, with the mastery endemic of a social Historian, depicts the progressive birth of a State from the Caste War of Yucatán (1847-1901), the bloody revolt of native Mayan people against the European-descended population, the so-called Yucatecos, on to the colonial order of British Honduras (1862-1981) till Belize finally reaches independence and international recognition on September 21, 1981. Emilia Olivera, mother of Víctor Manuel Durán and seven other children, reaches, through her enduring and endearing existence, the symbolic status of mother of her young and noble homeland, Belize. Beloved by family members and relatives, who cheered her till a few weeks from her one hundred and second birthday, admired by her fellow citizens, she earned the right to rest in peace in the small cemetery of the village of Progreso. Her soul, though, will inhabit forever the wooded banks of the large and beautiful fresh-water lagoon she enjoyed so much throughout her life.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University Press of the South
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1937030644
• ISBN 13: 9781937030643
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 172
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