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The collected manifestos of Édouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau: for a postcolonial humanism embodying a "unity-diversity."Manifestos, written in part in the aftermath of Barack Obama's election in 2008, resonates with the current context of divided identities and criticisms of multiculturalism in the US, Europe, and beyond. The individual texts engage with concrete historical and political moments with respect to French, Caribbean, and No...

The multiple narrators in this novel grapple with their unrecorded history on Martinique, first as slaves and then in relation to the wider world.

¿ouard 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 H¿ne Cixous¿s The Book of Promethea, all available from the University of Nebraska Press.

A major work by this prominent Caribbean author and philosopher, available for the first time in English

The Fourth Century tells of the quest by young Mathieu Beluse to discover the lost history of his country, Martinique. Aware that the officially recorded version he learned in school omits and distorts, he turns to a quimboiseur named Papa Longoue. This old man of the forest, a healer, seer, and storyteller, knows the oral tradition and its relation to the powers of the land and the forces of nature. He tells of the love-hate relationship betw...