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 post-slavery Caribbean history: a novel that is as much about self-affirmation engendered by memory as it is about a quest …
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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 post-slavery Caribbean history: a novel that is as much about self-affirmation engendered by memory as it is about a quest for the adequacy of its own form.
In a narrative composed of short sequences, each recounting episodes or developments of moment, and interspersed with extracts from fictive notebooks and from statements by an urban planner, Marie-Sophie Laborieux, the saucy, aging daughter of a slave affranchised by his master, tells the story of the tormented foundation of her people's identity. The shantytown established by Marie-Sophie is menaced from without by hostile landowners and from within by the volatility of its own provisional state.
Hers is a brilliant polyphonic rendering of individual stories informed by rhythmic orality and subversive humor that shape a collective experience.
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Texaco
Copertina rigida, 401 pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 11 Febbraio 1997 da Pantheon.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-679-43235-7ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 34984265
Texaco
Brossura, 416 pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato da Vintage.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-679-75175-5ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 38581519
Texaco
mass market paperback, 497 pagine
lingua French
Pubblicato il 1992 da Gallimard, Folio.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-07-038952-0ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 32308978
Texaco
401, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 1997 da Pantheon Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-679-43235-7ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 34984265
Texaco
401, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 1997 da Granta, Daedalus Books Inc Remainders.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-86207-007-3ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 38590064
Texaco
432, pagine
lingua French
Pubblicato il 1992 da Gallimard.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-07-072750-6ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 26889151
Texaco
Copertina rigida
lingua English
Pubblicato da Random House Value Publishing.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-517-44975-2ISBN copiato!
Texaco
Brossura
lingua Spanish
Pubblicato da Anagrama.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-339-0665-6ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 434393927
Texaco
lingua English
Pubblicato il 1999 da Penguin Random House.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-224-03779-2ISBN copiato!
Texaco
497, pagine
lingua French
Pubblicato il 1992 da Gallimard.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-07-038952-0ISBN copiato!
Texaco
lingua English
Pubblicato il 1999 da Penguin Random House.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-09-930214-8ISBN copiato!
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