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The Island: Martinique (National Geographic Directions)
The Island Martinique - National Geographic Directions Author:John Edgar Wideman In this compelling travel memoir, author John Edgar Wideman explores Martiniques seductive natural beauty and culture, as well as its vexed history of colonial violence and racism. Attempting to decipher the strange, alluring mixture of African and European that is Creole, he and his French traveling companion develop a powerful attraction... more » to one another, which they find at once threatened and elevated by a third partythe island itself. Against Martiniques vivid backdrop of Africans and Creoles, Thomas Jefferson and Paul Gauguin, a live volcano, Zouk music, native psychiatrist-writer Frantz Fanon, and the legacy of slavery and colonialism, Widemans story is a rich intersection of place, history, and the intricacies of human relations. Through it he gets deep into the Caribbean and close to the heart of the Creole experience.« less
....a travel memoire,where he shows us martinique;an island paradise,haunted by racial cruelty and natural disasters.beauty and brutality exotic vistas shadowed by centuries of exploitation,and a pulse of race consciousness...