...Sarah L. Lincoln Reading Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco in terms of Joseph Meeker's notion of the “comedy of survival,” Lincoln argues that the text affirms the pragmatic necessities of survival and continued “opposition,” despite the evident impossibility of resistance at a time of political...

..., 72–73, 111–17. 37 Ibid., 243. 38 “With the voice of a little girl”; Chamoiseau, Texaco , 447. 39 “Surprisingly soft”; “velvety”; Chamoiseau, Biblique des derniers gestes , 663. 40 Ibid., 666. 41 “Splendor”; “He began to dance with the Polo Carcels like two...

... writers before him,3 some critics interpreted his groundbreaking novel Texaco in a way that brought to mind the critical reception of regionalism.4 These members of the Parisian literary circles emphasized the cultural specificities of the novel drawn from the history of the Martinican community...

..., and isolation to whatever degree possible. This idea of creolization as an uneven process of bricolage is particularly evident in Pat- rick Chamoiseau’s Texaco where he describes the dialogic process through which the Creole language evolved as a strategy of evasion, resistance...

... Radcliffe-Brown to lend weight to his ethnographic role playing. 13 He makes a similar move in Texaco , whose protagonist, Marie-Sophie, is simultaneously an embodiment of Martinican cultural history, a storyteller/writer, and an informant for the figure of the creole novelist, Chamoiseau's textual...

... traditions appeared Ina Césaire, an author with anthropological training specializing in creole folktales. She wrote a number of plays directly inspired by creole orality and published transcriptions of tales, and, two years after Chamoiseau earned the Prix Goncourt for Texaco , her first novel, Zonzon...

... College, New School for Liberal Arts. She is the author of Veillées pour les mots: Césaire, Chamoiseau, Condé (2004) and is the translator, with Val Vinokur, of Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnificent and Texaco and of Marie Vieux-Chauvet's Love, Anger, Madness . M att R ichardson...

..., 2001), 129–37. 5 Patrick Chamoiseau, Texaco: A Novel (London: Vintage, 1998), 3. 4 Barry Chevannes, Betwixt and Between: Explorations in an African Caribbean Mindscape (Kingston: Ian Randle, 2006), 164–65. 3 Sylvia Wynter, “Novel and History, Plot and Plantation,” Savacou...

... in the Department of Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College, the New School for Liberal Arts. She is the author of Veillées pour les mots: Césaire, Chamoiseau, Condé (2004) and is the translator, with Val Vinokur, of Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnificent (1997) and Texaco (1997), as well as of Marie Vieux...

... (in the conclusion of his prize-winning novel, Texaco , for instance), in Césaire, Perse, Glissant , this ambivalence has been supplanted by unalloyed praise. 5 I want to examine here the transformation of Césaire's legacy as it is performed in Césaire, Perse, Glissant and to draw out its implications...

..., in other words starting with d’Esnambuc and moving through the major dates, such as departmentalization. He proposed structures quite similar to those I used in Texaco, in which I tried to carve up time not according to colonialist dates but using materials—there are a whole series...

... magnifique is an ethnographer whose fieldwork on Martinican day laborers leads him into an investigation of how creole orality and storytelling intersect with French ideologies of national integration. More famously still, Chamoiseau’s 1992 Prix Goncourt–winning Texaco positions his protagonist, Marie...

... way to the illusion of grasping a coherent whole and instead presenting parts of the whole, like the shantytown in Texaco . Or else he tends to single out an object or a phenomenon within the narrative flow, like the poetic description of how to construct a wheelbarrow in Chronique des sept misères...

... Texaco was awarded the prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, in 1992.24 Moreover, in this later essay, Kundera admits that in the twentieth century, for the first time, the major initiatives and developments in the art of the European novel emerge from outside Europe:25...

...-Chaînes, Bord-de-Canal, Calvaire, Texaco, Morne-Pichevin—in short, all over the En-Ville. But neither Félix Soleil the djobeur , nor Rigobert the “come-hither” of the Syrian store, nor Solibo Magnifique the conteur , nor Philomène the streetwalker of the Pont-Démosthène, nor Vovonne Macommère, who had...

... in the Caribbean and its engagement with the trope which became the central anti-colonial figure of the twentieth-century anticolonial nationalist period in the Caribbean—Caliban. Then of course there is the text’s own radical edge, as it is clearly not 17. Patrick Chamoiseau, Texaco...

... créoles by Raphaël Confiant and Patrick Chamoiseau. A mere three years after the awarding of the Goncourt Prize to Chamoiseau for his novel Texaco and of the Nobel Prize for Literature to Derek Walcott, this book revealed to Japanese intellectuals the literary, philosophical, and political stakes...

... à thèse by Suleiman's definition often resist the baroque. 31 Chancé suggests that three of Chamoiseau's novels— Chronique des sept misères , Solibo Magnifique , and Texaco —have markedly baroque aspects, while Biblique displays a tendency away from “baroquisme,” at least on the conceptual level: “L'univers...

... critical of what he saw as an indiscriminate use of Creole in Caribbean literature. In his review of Patrick Chamoiseau’s novel Texaco (written in French Creole), Walcott wrote, “My hatred of the current way of writing down Creole (‘orthography’) is a lost battle, but my rage continues in defeat...