A New York Times New and Noteworthy Book Édouard Glissant’s novels, closely tied to the theories he developed in Poétique de la Relation (Poetics of relation), are rich explorations of a deported and colonized people’s loss of their own history and the ever-evolving social and political effects this sense of groundlessness has caused in Martinique. In Mahagony Glissant identifies both the malaise of and the potential within Martinican society through a powerful collective narrative of geographic identity explored through multiple narrators. These characters’ lives are viewed back and forth over centuries of time and through tales of resistance, linked always by the now-ancient mahogany tree. Attempting to untangle the collective memory of Martinique, Mathieu, the contemporary narrator, creates a conscious history of these people in that place—a record that unearths the mechanics of misrepresentation to get at the fundamental, enduring truths of that history, perhaps as only the mahogany tree knows it.
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The multiple narrators in this novel grapple with their unrecorded history on Martinique, first as slaves and then in relation to the wider world.
ChronologyLe Trou-à-rochesMathieuThe One Who Serves as HusbandEudoxieHégésippeLanoué MathieuMalendureThe DescentLongouéArtémise according to AdélaïdeA Cock for AsklepiusMathieuOdibertThe Whole-WorldMarie CelatIda MathieuThe CommentatorResurfacingPassion according to Mathieu
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"A centuries-old tree in Martinique witnesses generations of resistance, striving and social collapse in this novel by the island’s foremost postcolonial writer."—New York Times
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781496201782
Publisert
2021-01-01
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Nebraska Press
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
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Oversetter