04779nam a22003857a 4500 pucpr 20231110101843.0 160610s1997 nyu gr 0001f eng d 9780679751755 0679432353 pucpr pucpr rda english pucpr CARIBET PQ39492.2.C45 T4913 1997 843.91 C41t4 19 Chamoiseau, Patrick, 1953- Texaco : a novel / Patrick Chamoiseau ; translated from the french and creole by Rose-Myriam Rǰouis and Val Vinokurov. New York Random House 1997 401 pag. ; 21 cm. rdacontent txt text rdamedia n unmediaded rdacarrier nc volume Vintage international Glosario : p.397-401. MILESTONES IN OUR ATTEMPTS TO CONQUER THE CITY -- THE ANNUNCIATION (in which the urban planner who comes to raze the insalubrious Texaco Quarter instead finds himself in a Creole circus and faces a matadora's word) -- The Christ's coming according to Irene -- The Christ's coming according to Sonore -- The Christ's coming according to Marie-Clemente -- The Christ's encounter with the old blackman of the Doum -- The Christ's encounter with myself -- THE SERMON OF MARIE-SOPHIE LABORIEUX (not on the mount, but over some dark rum) -- AROUND SAINT-PIERRE (in which the slave Esternome, having embarked on the conquest of City, brings back nothing but the horror of a barbecued love) -- THE AGE OF STRAW (1823-1920) -- Grandpapa of the dungeon -- Grandmama laundress -- The conquest of the Big Hutch -- The Mentoh and the carpenter -- The descent into City -- Oselia's cream -- The libertied and the affranchis -- A woman's blow -- Building City -- Shoeless blackman -- Sweet Ninon so sweet -- The mean chabin -- The Word of the Mentohs -- Ninon's illusion -- Headwork and troubles -- The Nouteka of the Hills -- Doctor of Hutches -- Factory charms -- An infernal serenade -- Barbecued love -- AROUND FORT-DE-FRANCE (in which Esternome's daughter, bearer of a secret name, pursues the work of conquest and imposes Texaco) -- THE AGE OF CRATE WOOD (1903-1945) -- The Flying One -- A quick look at Idomenee's musings -- Tears of light -- Last love bites -- The Word Scratcher to the Source -- Musicians with hungry eyes -- City people -- The Made-in-France dresses and the four books -- Basile at heart -- The muscles of civilization -- The lonely watergrass -- Other City people -- THE AGE OF ASBESTOS (1946-1960) -- Mad Season -- The dream of leaving -- Morne Abelard's Laws -- Law 35 -- Sweet painful bride -- The last Mentoh -- Words of the old blackman of the Doum -- The secret name -- Foundation stricken -- Time biding its time -- Christmas down here -- THE AGE OF CONCRETE (1961-1980) -- Free soil -- Writing-dying -- The Word Scratcher to the Source -- The drifter -- Roman goose -- The lawyerly mulatto -- The sailors with visions -- The Cesaire effect -- The drifter's death -- Writing-torn -- The beke's swan song -- Medicine-poem -- Hoping for the Messiah -- The toll -- The last shark catcher -- Christ's arrival -- The secret name -- RESURRECTION (not in Easter's splendor but in the shameful society of the Word Scratcher who tries to write life) A novel of Martinique through the eyes of its people. Narrated by a black woman activist, the story spans 150 years, describing the end of slavery, the collapse of the sugar plantations, the coming of the oil companies and the new relations with France, of which the island is a department. By the author of Creole Folktales. In a narrative composed of short sequences, each recounting episodes or developments of moment, and interspersed with extracts from fictive notebooks and from statements by an urban planner, Marie-Sophie Laborieux, the saucy, aging daughter of a slave affranchised by his master, tells the story of the tormented foundation of her people's identity. The shantytown established by Marie-Sophie is menaced from without by hostile landowners and from within by the volatility of its own provisional state. Hers is a brilliant polyphonic rendering of individual stories informed by rhythmic orality and subversive humor that shape a collective experience--From product description. Winner of the Prix Concourt Women planners 296233 Fiction Caribbean Area Fiction 1810-1945 207607 Martinique Fiction 132249 History Caribbean Area Fiction 1945 207607 Martinique History 132249 Vinokurov, Val, Rǰouis, Rose Myriam, lcc 6 PQ3949.2.C45 General T4913 1997 280923 280923 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2019-01-22 Amazon 16.95 0 General PQ3949.2.C45 T4913 1997 91000000057448 2020-09-10 00:00:00 1 26.95 2019-01-22 6