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The Overseer´s Cabin
Édouard Glissant
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Description for The Overseer´s Cabin
Paperback. One Martinican woman's resistance of French culture and her search for identity in her country's colonized past. Translator(s): Wing, Betsy. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 genealogy. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803234796
SKU
V9780803234796
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About Édouard Glissant
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.
Reviews for The Overseer´s Cabin
"In this important French Caribbean writer's world, past is present, and his lush prose demands to be gulped, not read."—Publishers Weekly "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