{"product_id":"the-overseers-cabin-9780803234796","title":"The Overseer's Cabin","description":"With Édouard Glissant's \u003ci\u003eThe Fourth Century\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e observed, \"we get the full effect of his overarching project: a literary exorcism of Martinique's scarred psyche and past, a lingering cry against the 'black hole of time and forgetting.'\" Glissant, \"one of the most significant figures in Caribbean literature\" (\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e), continues that project in \u003ci\u003eThe Overseer's Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e, conjuring in one woman's story centuries knotted together by unknown blood, voiceless suffering, and death without echo.\u003cbr\u003e Beginning with the birth in 1928 of Mycea, the last of the intertwining ancestral families introduced in \u003ci\u003eThe Fourth Century\u003c\/i\u003e, and ending with her release from an asylum in 1978, the novel moves back and forth across a framework that weaves the story of Mycea's family against the legacy of Martinique as an island whose history and indigenous people have all but been erased. From the beginnings of Mycea's family in the tale of two blood brothers, both named Odono, to its ending with the fate of her two sons, the novel encapsulates the island's destiny in one Martinican woman's plight. With the past irretrievable and the future in doubt, Mycea journeys inward, finding in her connection to the land of Martinique, and to the seafloor littered with drowned slaves, a reality, and a possibility, uncolonized by others' history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eÉdouard Glissant (born 1928) is a Martinican playwright, critic, essayist, and novelist. Betsy Wing's previous translations include Paule Constant's \u003ci\u003eWhite Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e, Glissant's \u003ci\u003eThe Fourth Century\u003c\/i\u003e, and Hélène Cixous's \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Promethea\u003c\/i\u003e, all available from the University of Nebraska Press.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492070199570,"sku":"9780803234796","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_985bc5f7-b5e6-478a-a46d-df6e46bad6b6.jpg?v=1730569592","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-overseers-cabin-9780803234796","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}