{"product_id":"mahagony-douard-glissant-9781496201782","title":"Mahagony","description":"A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e New and Noteworthy Book \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e ﾉdouard Glissant's novels, closely tied to the theories he developed in \u003ci\u003ePo騁ique de la Relatio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003en\u003c\/i\u003e (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 \u003ci\u003eMahagony\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e ﾉdouard Glissant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496201787\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496201782\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.42d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2021","brand":"ﾉdouard Glissant","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44048241557759,"sku":"9781496201782","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_70b00a6f-9e00-4225-83c1-a729e342a132.jpg?v=1684994687","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mahagony-douard-glissant-9781496201782","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}