Table of Contents

From the Quotidien des Antilles, September 4, 1978

Head on Fire

      Trace of the Time Before

      A Pact with Powers

      Tales of Saving Faith

      The Lovers' Reliquary

The Center of Time

      Burnt-over Memories

      Bestiary: Light and Dark

      The Ledger of Suffering

      Acts of War

First Animal

      In Two Places at Once

      Inventory of Tools

      Sound of Somewhere Else

      Rock of Opacity

From the Quotidien des Antilles, September 13, 1978

An Attempt to Classify the Relations between the Families Béluse, Targin, Longoué, Celat

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One Martinican woman's resistance of French culture and her search for identity in her country's colonized past.

About the Author

Édouard Glissant (born 1928) is a Martinican playwright, critic, essayist, and novelist. Betsy Wing’s previous translations include Paule Constant’s White Spirit, Glissant’s The Fourth Century, and Hélène Cixous’s The Book of Promethea, all available from the University of Nebraska Press.

Reviews

"In this important French Caribbean writer's world, past is present, and his lush prose demands to be gulped, not read."—Publishers Weekly

"The contents of The Overseer's Cabin lift out of a flat page and become a life-world that moves the reader. Without forcing, the book reveals an uncomplicated representation of humanity."—Janelle Adsit, Foreword