Mahagony
eBook - ePub

Mahagony

A Novel

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

About this book

A New York Times New and Noteworthy Book 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. 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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Chronology
  8. LE TROU-À-ROCHES
  9. Mathieu
  10. The One Who Serves as Husband
  11. Eudoxie
  12. Hégésippe
  13. Lanoué
  14. Mathieu
  15. MALENDURE
  16. The Descent
  17. Longoué
  18. Artémise according to Adélaïde
  19. A Cock for Asklepius
  20. Mathieu
  21. Odibert
  22. THE WHOLE-WORLD
  23. Marie Celat
  24. Ida
  25. Mathieu
  26. The Commentator
  27. Resurfacing
  28. Passion according to Mathieu
  29. About Édouard Glissant
  30. About Betsy Wing