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Un regard poétique, rigoureux et inédit sur la "créolité" et l'ensemble du monde antillais au travers de l'étude des orpailleurs d'or de Guyane. Un témoignage sur un mode de vie disparu, conté avec amour et finesse. "Cet ouvrage c'est tout d'abord de l'ethnographie de grand cru. Mais en même temps, l'étude de Baj Strobel - rigoureuse, personnelle et poétique - jette un regard inédit et convaincant sur la « créolité » et l'ensemble du monde antillais. Par le détour de la forêt guyanaise, elle nous met en situation d'aborder l'essentiel de ces sociétés insulaires, à la fois soumises et résistantes, repliées sur elles-mêmes et ouvertes - à leur façon - au « Tout-Monde ». C'est le témoignage d'un mode de vie disparu, relaté avec amour et finesse. On y découvre tout une société nouvelle, minuscule, étrange et en fin de compte pleine de charmes. A travers contes, chansons, musiques, et minutieuses restitutions des travaux et des jours, on comprend pourquoi ces hommes se sont mis en quête de l'or et on saisit aussi les merveilleuses implications métaphysiques de cette ultime quête. En centrant son propos sur les orpailleurs, l'auteur tisse une trame qui s'étend à l'ensemble de la Caraïbe. Au fil des cent ans d'histoire qu'elle nous raconte, nous pouvons voir les processus de créolisation qui se sont reproduits depuis les premières ébauches de communauté sur la plantation insulaire jusqu'aux réinventions de l'identité par les migrants caribéens que l'on retrouve aujourd'hui à Toronto, Miami ou Paris. C'est un témoignage sur le processus continu de la créolisation, sur la migration et la reconstitution.".
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The Furnace of Gold was published in 1910. The title comes from Proverbs 17:3 The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tests the heart. The story begins "Now Nevada, though robed in gray and white--the gray of sagebrush and the white of snowy summits--had never yet been accounted a nun when once again the early summer aroused the passions of her being and the wild peach burst into bloom. It was out in Nauwish valley, at the desert-edge, where gold has been stored in the hungry-looking rock to lure man away from fairer pastures. There were mountains everywhere--huge, rugged mountains, erected in the igneous fury of world-making, long since calmed. Above them all the sky was almost incredibly blue--an intense ultramarine of extraordinary clearness and profundity. At the southwest limit of the valley was the one human habitation established thereabout in many miles, a roadside station where a spring of water issued from the earth. Towards this, on the narrow, side-hill road, limped a dusty red automobile. It contained three passengers, two women and a man. Of the women, one was a little German maid, rather pretty and demure, whose duty it was to enact the chaperone. The other, Beth Kent, straight from New York City, well--the wild peach was in bloom.".
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The Furnace of Gold was published in 1910. The title comes from Proverbs 17:3 The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tests the heart. The story begins "Now Nevada, though robed in gray and white--the gray of sagebrush and the white of snowy summits--had never yet been accounted a nun when once again the early summer aroused the passions of her being and the wild peach burst into bloom. It was out in Nauwish valley, at the desert-edge, where gold has been stored in the hungry-looking rock to lure man away from fairer pastures. There were mountains everywhere--huge, rugged mountains, erected in the igneous fury of world-making, long since calmed. Above them all the sky was almost incredibly blue--an intense ultramarine of extraordinary clearness and profundity. At the southwest limit of the valley was the one human habitation established thereabout in many miles, a roadside station where a spring of water issued from the earth. Towards this, on the narrow, side-hill road, limped a dusty red automobile. It contained three passengers, two women and a man. Of the women, one was a little German maid, rather pretty and demure, whose duty it was to enact the chaperone. The other, Beth Kent, straight from New York City, well--the wild peach was in bloom.".
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Working class --- Gold miners --- History.
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Gold mines and mining --- Gold miners --- History.
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Women gold miners --- Women pioneers --- History
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Gold miners --- Working class --- History. --- History
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Gold mines and mining --- Gold mines and mining --- Gold miners
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Capitalism --- Gold miners --- Gold mines and mining --- History
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