Round 8: Tossup 6

A 1975 novel set in this country titled for a “cockfight” was the first written in one of its languages and is by the mononymous Frankétienne (“fron-kay-tee-EN”). In a play, this country’s king appoints the dukes of Lemonade and Marmalade and is haunted by the ghost of a murdered bishop. In a novel set in this country, which embodies “the marvelous real,” a one-armed revolutionary transforms into (10[1])a succession of animals. In a 1994 novel, a girl from this country named Sophie is kicked out of her Brooklyn house when she fails her mother’s virginity test. (10[1])This country (10[1])is the setting of Alejo Carpentier’s (-5[1])The Kingdom of This World (10[1])and the birthplace of an author who wrote Krik? Krak! and Breath, Eyes, Memory. For 10 points, name this birth country of Edwidge Danticat (“don-tee-KAH”), who grew up speaking its French-derived Creole. ■END■ (10[1])

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