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The novel interwines the stories of three characters (Gani, Maho, Mani) that make the act ofmarronnage in last two centuries’ Martinique. The marronnage is the gateway in the woods inorder to escape from the plantation’s slavery system. The multiplicity of narrativefocalizations and the multilingualism between French and creole, structure a “choraldiscourse” that rewrites Martinique’s history […]

In Ormerod, his last novel, Glissant rewrites Martinique’s history from colonization to contemporary, intertwining it with nowadays world process of creolization. Slavery, rebellions, plantations, become “global” events which concentrate and irradiate themselves in different spaces, times and moments. History’s rewriting also passes through the rewriting of the utopia genre as a chaotic accumulation of elements.

Winner of 1992 Goncourt Prize, Texaco is a polyphonic novel that narrates the epic of Martinican people from slavery to contemporary, through the construction of the popular neighborhood of Texaco in Fort de France. The voice of the protagonist (Marie-Sophie Laborieux) is intertwined with the voices of other inhabitants and which the marqueur de paroles’ […]