{"product_id":"mahagony-a-novel-paperback-softback-9781496201782","title":"Mahagony; A Novel (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496201782","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMahagony\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Novel\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eÉdouard Glissant (Author), Betsy Wing (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496201782\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 January 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e186 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.4 cm, 0.244 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"A centuries-old tree in Martinique witnesses generations of resistance, striving and social collapse in this novel by the island’s foremost postcolonial writer.\"-\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Glissant (\u003ci\u003eThe Overseer's Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e), canonized in the Caribbean for his poetry, novels, and critical theory, offers a dazzling history of colonialism in Martinique, originally published in 1997 and here translated into English for the first time. . . . Glissant (1928–2011) is as comprehensive as he is unconcerned with the encumbrance of linearity, and has found the perfect form to explore the inescapable and reverberating legacies of colonialism. This is a transcendent work of art.\"-\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMahagony\u003c\/i\u003e gives a gripping fictional embodiment of \u0026amp;Eacute;douard Glissant’s literary and cultural theory. It is the indispensable pivot between his abstract thought, his poetry, and his engagement with the history of the postcolonial world. Betsy Wing is Glissant’s foremost translator; she is our best guide through the mangrove of the Martinique master’s body of work.”-A. James Arnold, professor emeritus of French at the University of Virginia\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMahagony\u003c\/i\u003e is a crucial monument to the ever-evolving changes defined by\u0026amp;Eacute;douard Glissant’s \u003ci\u003ePoÉtique de la Relation\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . Betsy Wing has rendered the stylistic complexities of Glissant’s writing while preserving the explosive life that emanates from every instant of this important work . . . resulting in an eminently readable text whose poetic power, charm, and subtlety has been faithfully and elegantly preserved. A magnificent accomplishment.”-Alexandre Leupin, Phyllis M. Taylor Professor in French Studies at Louisiana State University\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e New and Noteworthy Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u0026amp;Eacute;douard Glissant’s novels, closely tied to the theories he developed in \u003ci\u003ePoÉtique de la Relatio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003en\u003c\/i\u003e (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 \u003ci\u003eMahagony\u003c\/i\u003e Glissant identifies both the malaise of and the potential within Martinican society through a powerful collective narrative of geographic identity explored through multiple narrators. 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