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Moya’s own work, of which “Senselessness,” “The She-Devil in the Mirror,” and most recently, “Dance with Snakes?? have been translated from Spanish, is evidence of the author’s acute comprehension of society’s penchant for forcing what is foreign into a controllable compartment. “Dance with Snakes,” originally published in 1996 and now translated by Lee Paula Springer, is a four-part frenzy, a detailed depiction of the chaotic hell...
...Dance with Snakes?? suggests the extent of Moya’s potential, but does not realize it fully. While “Senselessness,” published eight years later, was a horrific testimony of genocide, “Dance with Snakes?? is an unsettling account of a narrator disillusioned with his own race. The novel gives a glimpse of the incredible emotional devastation that makes “Senselessness” such a disconcerting story of a man losing grip with his humanity, and it hints at Moya’s humor, with its fast...
...Moya suggests that the man who has caused so much chaos will simply blend back into the world around him. Punished for being intractable, Sosa nevertheless manages to spite authority and replace a façade that fools those who tried to tame him. “Dance with Snakes?? is a pointed critique of societal repression, whose value lies in its ability to infringe upon the prude sensitivities of human emotion and to make a renegade sympathetic, if not a hero...
...water, towering above the boat....I looked at the entire length of the snake’s whitish underbelly as it fell backward with a loud, large splash into the Madeira River.” But, “Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes?? provides more than just a glimpse of what Everett’s life with the Pirahã was like. Though he does spin a number of colorful but disparate narrative threads, the cross-stitch that binds them all together is his research. In fact, the whole second part of the book...
...which the Zimbabwean liberation struggle is known. This music is replete with traditional influences, as is reggae; Chimurenga’s lyrics are also preoccupied with the struggle for human rights, freedom and dignity. Solely the veiled, idiomatic nature of the lyrics (which speak of “poisonous snakes?? rather than oppressive regimes) saved him from being imprisoned during Zimbabwe’s struggle for liberation...
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