Mahagony: A Novel

Édouard Glissant's novels, closely tied to the theories he developed in

Poétique de la Relatio

n (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

Mahagony

Glissant identifies both the malaise of and the potential within Martinican society through a powerful collective narrative of geographic identity explored through multiple ...