A New York Times New and Noteworthy Book Edouard Glissant's novels,
closely tied to the theories he developed in Poetique de la
Relation (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 Mahagony Glissant
identifies both the malaise of and the potential within Martinican
society through a powerful collective narrative of geographic
identity explored through multiple narrators. These characters'
lives are viewed back and forth over centuries of time and through
tales of resistance, linked always by the now-ancient mahogany
tree. Attempting to untangle the collective memory of Martinique,
Mathieu, the contemporary narrator, creates a conscious history of
these people in that place-a record that unearths the mechanics of
misrepresentation to get at the fundamental, enduring truths of
that history, perhaps as only the mahogany tree knows it.
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