• Fiction, History, Women planners, Slavery

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.

FictionHistoryWomen plannersSlaveryFiction, generalCaribbean area, fiction

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  • classical in formformally daring
  • contemplativerelentless

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