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The Island: Martinique (National Geographic Directions) | 
 enlarge | Author: John Edgar Wideman
Publisher: National Geographic
Category: Book
List Price: $20.00
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1285975
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0792265335
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.2982
EAN: 9780792265337
ASIN: 0792265335
Publication Date: February 1, 2003
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Book Description
In this compelling travel memoir, author John Edgar Wideman explores Martinique's 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 to one another, which they find at once threatened and elevated by a third party—the island itself. Against Martinique's 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, Wideman's 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.
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John Donne was wrong... September 11, 2007
'Giordano Hussein Bruno' (Campo dei Fiori)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
John Edgar Wideman plainly considers himself "an island entire unto himself". Foolish me, I interpreted the title of this book to mean that The Island in question was Martinique, and on that basis I bought the book to read on a flight to Fort de France. Even with nothing else to read but the in-flight shopping mag, I couldn't get past page 37 of this pretentious, self-indulgent, narcissistic tour of the hotel bedrooms of the Caribbean. I'll put myself at risk by confessing that I thought seriously about sky-jacking the plane to the nearest news stand. Sample:
"Silence as a counterpoint, counterweight to the fugue of many voices, many languages buzzing imperiously, incomprehensibly around you. Silence as an answer. A rejoinder to chaos."
A hundred sixty-five pages of such bombast! Think of it! Without even an in-flight Adam Sandler movie to take refuge in!
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