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"...Through the life of Telumee Lougandor we meet a proud line of women who live in small villages in Guadeloupe: women whose lives are beyond Africa, beyond the slavery that in theory had been abolished, and beyond the physical restrictions of their difficult existence, which is eased only by their faith in the spirit world...Ma Cia, a witch "closer to the dead than the living," soundly advises young Telumee: "Be a fine little Negress, a real drum with two sides. Let life bang and thump, but keep the underside always intact."..."
(H.S., p. 196)
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