Patrick Chamoiseau
Martinican novelist and theorist who, with Confiant and Bernabe, formulated Creolite as a literary ideology. Texaco is his prize-winning epic of Martinican urban history told in an exuberantly mixed Creole-French idiom.
Works
- TexacoNovel about a squatter settlement in Martinique and the memories of a woman
- Solibo MagnificentNovella set in Guadeloupe exploring storytelling, death, and community
- School DaysSemi-autobiographical coming-of-age narrative set in Martinique
- Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows
- Slave Old Man
- ChildhoodAutobiographical work exploring childhood and growth in the Caribbean