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  Texaco

  by Patrick Chamoiseau, Rose-Myriam Rejouis, Val Vinokurov

  "Chamoiseau is a writer who has the sophistication of the modern novelist, and it is from that position (as an heir of Joyce and Kafka) that he holds out his hand to the oral prehistory of literature." --Milan Kundera 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... (more)
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  The Wretched of the Earth

  by Frantz Fanon, Richard Philcox

  A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism or The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and it is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new... (more)
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  Black Skin, White Masks

  by Frantz Fanon

  A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when it was first published in 1952, the book remains a vital force today. “<Fanon> demonstrates how insidiously the problem of race, of color, connects with a whole... (more)
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  Cendrillon

  A Caribbean Cinderella

  by Charles Perrault

  You may think you know this story I am going to tell you, but you have not heard it for true. I was there. So I will tell you the truth of it. Here. Now.
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  A Colony of Citizens: Revolution & Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804

  by Laurent Dubois

  The idea of universal rights is often understood as the product of Europe, but as Laurent Dubois demonstrates, it was profoundly shaped by the struggle over slavery and citizenship in the French Caribbean. Dubois examines this Caribbean revolution by focusing on Guadeloupe, where, in the early 1790s, insurgents on the island fought for equality and freedom and formed alliances with besieged Republicans. In 1794,... (more)
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  Discours Sur Le Colonialisme

  by Aimé Césaire

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  La Catastrophe: The Eruption of Mount Pelee, the Worst Volcanic Disaster of the 20th Century

  by Alwyn Scarth

  On May 8, 1902, on the Caribbean island of Martinique, the volcano Mount Pelee loosed the most terrifying and lethal eruption of the twentieth century. In minutes, it killed 27,000 people and leveled the city of Saint-Pierre. In La Catastrophe, Alwyn Scarth provides a gripping day-by-day and hour-by-hour account of this devastating eruption, based primarily on chilling eyewitness accounts. Scarth recounts how, for... (more)
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  Solibo Magnificent

  by Patrick Chamoiseau, Val Vinokurov

  Chamoiseau's grand and intriguing riff on the police procedural, "Solibro Magnificent" represents another masterpiece by the author of the award-winning "Texaco". It's carnival time at Fort-de-France, Martinique. Before an enraptured public, the great teller of tales, Solibro Magnificent, is felled, seemingly choked by his own words. Is it autostrangulation or murder? .
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  Childhood

  by Patrick Chamoiseau

  Using the playful, orally inspired, and partially invented language for which he is renowned, Patrick Chamoiseau recalls the brilliant, magical universe of his early childhood in Martinique. At the center of this universe is his extraordinarily vigorous mother and her creative, pragmatic ways of coping with poverty and five children. As Chamoiseau presents these first impressions of an exceptional child growing up... (more)
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  Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows: Chronique Des Sept Miseres

  by 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 as the marketplace itself. In a Martinique where creatures from folklore walk the land and cultural traditions cling tenuously to life, Patrick Chamoiseau’s characters confront the crippling heritage of colonialism and the overwhelming advance... (more)
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  Scottish: Book 3

  The Diamond King

  by Patricia Potter

  The fighting at Culloden nearly destroyed Alex Leslie. Once a Highland nobleman with a truly brilliant future, Alex left the battlefield with a scarred face and wounded spirit -- and a hatred of the British that still ravages his soul. As captain of a privateer bound for diamond-rich Brazil, Alex captures every British vessel he encounters -- and takes a lovely, but defiant, lady captive...Alex has every... (more)
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  The Last Days of St. Pierre

  The Volcanic Disaster That Claimed Thirty Thousand Lives

  by Ernest Zebrowski

  On May 8th, 1902, Mont Pelee on the island of Martinique exploded. A deadly cloud of steam and ash churned through plantations and villages, flattened the grand city of St Pierre, then thundered into the bay where it sank 18 ships and hundreds of smaller craft. Within a minute or two, nearly 30,000 people had died. The rubble of their homes and belongings burned for three days and the world began to understand the... (more)
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  School Days = Chemin-D'Ecole: Chemin-D'Ecole

  by Patrick Chamoiseau

  School Days (Chemin-d’Ecole) is a captivating narrative based on Patrick Chamoiseau’s childhood in Fort-de-France, Martinique. It is a revelatory account of the colonial world that shaped one of the liveliest and most creative voices in French and Caribbean literature today. Through the eyes of the boy Chamoiseau, we meet his severe, Francophile teacher, a man intent upon banishing all remnants of Creole from his... (more)
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  A Tempest (Tcg Translations)

  by Aimé Césaire

  A troupe of black actors perform their own Tempest . Cesaire's rich and insightful adaptation draws on contemporary Carribean society, the African-American experience and African mythology to raise questions about colonialism, racism and their lasting effects.
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  The Silence of Sorrowful Hours

  by April Kutger

  The Silence of Sorrowful Hours tells the story of Ethan, a runaway slave, and Gideon, a man with a checkered past, of Angelise, a creole woman from Martinique, and Marabella, a beautiful actress. They live together on Osborne Hoffmann's farm and fight the war as a group of "irregulars" - spying on and disrupting the Confederates, sometimes on very dangerous missions. When Osborne volunteers as a nurse for the... (more)
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  Some Feet Not Meant for Shoes

  by Pamela Klein

  Caught in the midst of a spiritual metamorphosis she is hardly aware of, Norah is torn between two worlds: the one she expects ... and the one she suspects. She marries a scientist who scoffs at her peculiar feelings in just the way that science can. While Norah attempts to suppress what her spirit is trying to teach her, angels appear and challenge her to look deeper within for the elusive truth. She is a reckless... (more)