A <I>New York Times</I> New and Noteworthy Book<BR/><BR/>Édouard Glissant’s novels, closely tied to the theories he developed in <I>Poétique de la Relatio</I><I>n</I> (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 <I>Mahagony</I> 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.<BR/><BR/> 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 misrepresentatio
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<DIV><P><B>The complete poems of the two-time finalist for the Nobel Prize in Literature, available in English for the first time</B><BR/><BR/> This volume collects and translates—most for the first time—the...
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Forfatteren ble født på Martinique i 1928. I denne diktsamlingen maler han frem Martiniques fargerike og dramatiske historie. Samlingen tar sitt utgangspunkt i Columbus sin reise over havet og hans oppdagelse av Amerika.
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In Poetics of Relation, Glissant turns the concrete particulars of Caribbean reality into a complex, energetic vision of a world in transformation. This translation of Glissant's work preserves the resonating quality of his prose and makes the richness...
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