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    Vers un Concept de Litterature Nationale Martiniquaise: Evolution de la Litterature Martiniquaise au Xxeme Siecle - une Etude sur L'oeeuvre D'aime Cesaire, Edouard Glissant, Patrick Chamoiseau et Raphael Confiant

    Luciano C. Picanco

    L'objectif de Vers un concept de Litterature Nationale Martiniquaise est de demontrer qu'il existe en Martinique une litterature dont la dynamique laisse entrevoir les caracteristiques d'une litterature nationale. Pour ce…

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    Patrick Chamoiseau: Recovering Memory

    Maeve McCusker (French Studies, School of Languages, Literature & Performing Arts, Queen's University Belfast (United Kingdom))

    Considered by many as one of the most innovative writers to hit the French literary scene in over 40 years, Chamoiseau made his name with his book Texaco (published in…

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    Patrick Chamoiseau: A Critical Introduction

    Wendy Knepper

    Examines the career, oeuvre, and literary theories of one of the most important Caribbean writers living today. An important addition to Caribbean literary studies, Patrick Chamoiseau is an indispensable work…

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    Patrick Chamoiseau: A Critical Introduction

    Wendy Knepper

    Examines the career, oeuvre, and literary theories of one of the most important Caribbean writers living today. Chamoiseau’s work sheds light on the dynamic processes of creolization that have shaped…

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    The Matter of Absence

    In this affectionate elegy to his mother, Patrick Chamoiseau weaves together the recurring themes of his many novels, essays, and poems, such as the history of slavery, Africa and its…

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    The Matter of Absence

    In this affectionate elegy to his mother, Patrick Chamoiseau weaves together the recurring themes of his many novels, essays, and poems, such as the history of slavery, Africa and its…

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    Texaco: A Novel

    Patrick Chamoiseau

    Of black Martinican provenance, Patrick Chamoiseau gives us Texaco (winner of the Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary prize), an international literary achievement, tracing one hundred and fifty years of…

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    Solibo Magnificent

    Patrick Chamoiseau

    It is Carnival time in Fort-de-France. Before an enthralled crowd Solibo Magnificent, the great teller of tales, is felled, seemingly choked by his own words. Is it autostrangulation or murder?

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    The Old Slave and the Mastiff

    Patrick Chamoiseau

    From a Prix Goncourt writer hailed by Milan Kundera as the heir of Joyce and Kafka, a gripping story of an escaped slave in Martinique and the killer hound that…

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    The Old Slave and the Mastiff: The gripping story of a plantation slave’s desperate escape

    Patrick Chamoiseau

    From a Prix Goncourt writer hailed by Milan Kundera as the heir of Joyce and Kafka, a gripping story of an escaped slave in Martinique and the killer hound that…

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    Raphael Barontini: We Could Be Heroes

    Vibrant tapestries of historical fragments celebrate forgotten heroes and the triumph of resistance

    French artist Raphael Barontini (born 1984) finds his inspiration in the homage paid to the figures of…

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    Objectif Lune

    Herge,Herge,Patrick Chamoiseau

    Read about the world’s most famous travelling reporter in his native language, French, as Tintin’s adventures take him to the mysterious Sprodj Atomic Research Centre. Tintin and Captain Haddock are…

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    Slave Old Man

    Patrick Chamoiseau

    Originally published in France as L'Esclave vieil homme et le molosse by Gallimard, Paris, 1997 –Copyright page.

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    Slave Old Man

    Patrick Chamoiseau

    Now in paperback, this gripping, profoundly unsettling novel shares the tale of an elderly slave’s daring escape into the wild from a plantation in Martinique, with his master and a…

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    Texaco

    Patrick Chamoiseau,Martin Winckler

    A GRANTA Edition - our series of previously unavailable fugitive classics from the Granta archive.

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    Manifestos

    Edouard Glissant,Patrick Chamoiseau

    The collected manifestos of douard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau- for a postcolonial response to planetary crisis.

    Manifestos brings together for the first time in English the manifestos written by douard…

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    French Guiana: Memory Traces of the Penal Colony

    Patrick Chamoiseau,Matt Reeck

    A moving poetic essay that bears witness to the forgotten history of the French penal colony in French Guiana, French Guiana: Memory Traces of the Penal Colony (Guyane: Traces-Memoires du…

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    School Days

    Patrick Chamoiseau

    This novel tells the story of a young boy’s school days in Martinique, one of the last colonial possessions of France. His earliest education is an enjoyable form of play…

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    Creole Folktales

    Patrick Chamoiseau

    Award-winning French author Patrick Chamoiseau recreates in truly magical language the stories he heard as a child in Martinique. Folktales with a twist, fairy tales with attitude, these stories are…

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    Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows

    Patrick Chamoiseau

    Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows traces the rise and fall of Pipi Soleil, king of the wheelbarrow at the vegetable market of Fort-de-France, in a tale as lively and magical…

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    Over Seas of Memory: A Novel

    Michael Ferrier

    Based loosely on the author’s life, this novel recounts the narrator’s journey following the footsteps of his Mauritius-born grandfather, Maxime, who abruptly boarded a boat bound for Madagascar in 1922…

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    Migrant Brothers: A Poet’s Declaration of Human Dignity

    Patrick Chamoiseau

    A powerful call to recognize immigrants as kin, from one of the Caribbean’s most influential literary voices

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    Texaco

    Patrick Chamoiseau

    A GRANTA Edition - our series of previously unavailable fugitive classics from the Granta archive.

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    Crusoe’s Footprint

    Patrick Chamoiseau,Valerie Loichot

    A contemporary revision of the classic tale of Robinson Crusoe –

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    Crusoe’s Footprint

    Patrick Chamoiseau,Valerie Loichot

    A contemporary revision of the classic tale of Robinson Crusoe –

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