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The Island

The Island

by John Edgar Wideman

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2003
  • HARD COVER
  • 192 PAGES

Novelist Wideman explores the Creole experience and heritage in the Caribbean in this slim travelogue, which sends him to Martinique for experiences natural, cultural, and amorous. Wideman, a novelist and social critic, powerfully of the colonial history and racism of the island.  (CRB158, $20.00)


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