{"product_id":"mahagony-a-novel","title":"Mahagony: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eÉdouard Glissant's novels explore the loss of history and its social and political effects in Martinique, using a collective narrative of geographic identity and resistance. Mathieu creates a conscious history of these people to uncover the fundamental truths of their history. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e                                                            \u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e                              \u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 192 pages\u003cbr\u003e                              \u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 01 January 2021\u003cbr\u003e                              \u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e                          \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Édouard Glissants novels, closely tied to the theories he developed in Poétique de la Relation (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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAttempting 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e                            \u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 254g                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 140 x 215 x 14 (mm)                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781496201782                                                      \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edouard Glissant","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44095618121978,"sku":"9781496201782","price":12.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/eae1be4798a22075d32c193a7bfff198.jpg?v=1621172595","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/mahagony-a-novel","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}