Old Age, Handicapped, and Vietnam-era Antidiscrimination Legislation
- ISBN-10
- 0895460203
- ISBN-13
- 9780895460202
- Category
- Law / Civil Procedure
- Pages
- 263
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1980
- Publisher
- Industrial Research Unit, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- Author
- James P. Northrup
Description
The men and women glimpsed in Lahens's stories are confronted with the overwhelming task of simply staying alive. "The Survivors" unfolds under the Duvalier dictatorship and, centered on a group of men who dream of somehow striking out against the regime, shows how fear is passed down from generation to generation. Life is no simpler in the post-Duvalier world of the title story, in which a young man is caught between a mother who lives a devout life filled with self-imposed restrictions and an exuberant Vodouist aunt who makes no apologies for working in the black market. The twelve-year-old girl who narrates "Madness Had Come with the Rain" finds herself swept up in a violent riot following the death of a modern Robin Hood. Lahens' women, although they may act as the poto mitan (or "central pole") in family life and society, experience a particularly grim fate. In the eviction tale "And All This Unease" a beautiful girl reminisces about her happy childhood in the country in order to forget her current life as a prostitute.
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