Books: Black Winesburg

CANAPÉ-VERT—PhilippeThoby-Marcelin and Pierre Marcelin. Translated by Edward Larocque Tinker — Farrar & Rlnehart ($2.50).

Canape-Vert (Green Hill) is a Winesburg, Ohio of the Republic of Haiti. Its Negro characters have the same violent moods, the loneliness, the incomprehension, the longings, the same sudden impulses as Sherwood Anderson's Middle Westerners.

Houngans and Zombis. But where the people of Winesburg move like ghosts through a familiar, everyday world, the people of Canape-Vert live like human beings in a world of spirits. The native worship of the Negroes finds demons everywhere, in graveyards, in bedroom shrines,...

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