Windward Heights

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.

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.

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

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