Mahagony : a novel /

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Author / Creator:Glissant, Édouard, 1928-2011, author.
Uniform title:Mahagony. English
Imprint:Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
Description:1 online resource (ix, 170 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12543335
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Other authors / contributors:Wing, Betsy, translator.
ISBN:9781496224774
1496224779
9781496224750
1496224752
1496201787
9781496201782
Notes:Translated from the French.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 18, 2020).
Summary:The multiple narrators in this novel grapple with their unrecorded history on Martinique, first as slaves and then in relation to the wider world.
Other form:Print version: 1496201787 9781496201782
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Summary:A New York Times New and Noteworthy Book<br> <br> Édouard Glissant's novels, closely tied to the theories he developed in Poétique de la Relatio n (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.<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 misrepresentation to get at the fundamental, enduring truths of that history, perhaps as only the mahogany tree knows it.
Item Description:Translated from the French.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 170 pages)
ISBN:9781496224774
1496224779
9781496224750
1496224752
1496201787
9781496201782