Martinique (France) All works
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- PoetryJournal of a HomecomingCahier d'un retour au pays natalAimé Césaire · 1939A young poet returns to his island and refuses to look at colonial misery there as a mere spectator.Literature
- NovelI Am a Martinican WomanJe suis MartiniquaiseMayotte Capécia · 1948A Martinican childhood and youth told in the first person, up to the war years.Literature
- NovelBlack Shack AlleyLa Rue Cases-NègresJoseph Zobel · 1950A childhood among the cane cutters of Martinique, told by one who escaped it through school.Literature
- NovelThe RipeningLa LézardeÉdouard Glissant · 1958The Martinique of 1945, its elections and its militant youth, in the first novel of a poet and philosopher.Literature
- CinemaSugar Cane AlleyRue Cases-NègresEuzhan Palcy · 1983The childhood of a young Martinican boy in the time of the plantations, in the director's first feature film.Cinema
- NovelLe Nègre et l'AmiralRaphaël Confiant · 1988not translated into EnglishThe war as lived in a colony cut off from the world, between propaganda and resistance, in the author's first French novel.Literature
- NovelTexacoPatrick Chamoiseau · 1992Martinique from slavery to the modern city, told by the founder of a threatened district.Literature
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