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Highlights
- With Édouard Glissant's The Fourth Century, the Village Voice observed, "we get the full effect of his overarching project: a literary exorcism of Martinique's scarred psyche and past, a lingering cry against the 'black hole of time and forgetting.'
- About the Author: Édouard Glissant (born 1928) is a Martinican playwright, critic, essayist, and novelist.
- 224 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
- Series Name: Bison Original
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Book Synopsis
With Édouard Glissant's The Fourth Century, the Village Voice observed, "we get the full effect of his overarching project: a literary exorcism of Martinique's scarred psyche and past, a lingering cry against the 'black hole of time and forgetting.'" Glissant, "one of the most significant figures in Caribbean literature" (Washington Post), continues that project in The Overseer's Cabin, conjuring in one woman's story centuries knotted together by unknown blood, voiceless suffering, and death without echo.Beginning with the birth in 1928 of Mycea, the last of the intertwining ancestral families introduced in The Fourth Century, and ending with her release from an asylum in 1978, the novel moves back and forth across a framework that weaves the story of Mycea's family against the legacy of Martinique as an island whose history and indigenous people have all but been erased. From the beginnings of Mycea's family in the tale of two blood brothers, both named Odono, to its ending with the fate of her two sons, the novel encapsulates the island's destiny in one Martinican woman's plight. With the past irretrievable and the future in doubt, Mycea journeys inward, finding in her connection to the land of Martinique, and to the seafloor littered with drowned slaves, a reality, and a possibility, uncolonized by others' history.
Review Quotes
"In this important French Caribbean writer's world, past is present, and his lush prose demands to be gulped, not read."--Publishers Weekly-- (3/7/2011 12:00:00 AM)
"The contents of The Overseer's Cabin lift out of a flat page and become a life-world that moves the reader. Without forcing, the book reveals an uncomplicated representation of humanity."--Janelle Adsit, Foreword
About the Author
Édouard Glissant (born 1928) is a Martinican playwright, critic, essayist, and novelist. Betsy Wing's previous translations include Paule Constant's White Spirit, Glissant's The Fourth Century, and Hélène Cixous's The Book of Promethea, all available from the University of Nebraska Press.Dimensions (Overall): 8.54 Inches (H) x 5.52 Inches (W) x .56 Inches (D)
Weight: .67 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 224
Series Title: Bison Original
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Literary
Publisher: Bison Books
Format: Paperback
Author: Édouard Glissant
Language: English
Street Date: May 1, 2011
TCIN: 88981759
UPC: 9780803234796
Item Number (DPCI): 247-57-6136
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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