Mahagony - Edouard Glissant

A York Times And Noteworthy Book Douard Glissants Novels, Closely Tied To The Theories He Developed In Potique De La Relatio N (poetics Of Relation), Are Rich Explorations Of A Deported And Colonized Peoples 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.