Patrick Chamoiseau

Childhood

Autobiographical work exploring childhood and growth in the Caribbean

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Patrick Chamoiseau
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.

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