Mahagony : a novel /
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Author / Creator: | Glissant, Édouard, 1928-2011, author. |
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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 |
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. |
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Item Description: | Translated from the French. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 170 pages) |
ISBN: | 9781496224774 1496224779 9781496224750 1496224752 1496201787 9781496201782 |