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	AMERICAS SOCIETY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Chamoiseau has a program which made him a celebrity on French TV and a prize-winner in Paris, where identity politics is à la mode and politically correct.
		Since Chamoiseau's epic in-volves covering two centuries of history, two world wars, volcanic eruptions, the birth and death of cities, depressions, and the birth of a new literature, there is little room for colorful anecdotes.
		For Chamoiseau, her move from the role of storyteller to that of writer (she too produces notebooks) is particularly significant, as the third world seizes control of its own history by shaping its own literature.
	www.americas-society.org /as/literature/br58cham.html (1158 words)

	Patrick Chamoiseau. Who is Patrick Chamoiseau? What is Patrick Chamoiseau? Where is Patrick Chamoiseau? Definition of ...
		Patrick Chamoiseau was born in 1953 in Fort de France, Martinique, where he now lives.
		Chamoiseau is the author of a historical work on the Antilles under Bonaparte and two non-fiction works: In Praise of Creoleness and To Write in a Dominated Country.
		In 1992 Chamoiseau was awarded the Prix Goncourt for Texaco.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Patrick_Chamoiseau (102 words)

	Patrick Chamoiseau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Patrick Chamoiseau was born in 1953 in Fort de France, Martinique, where he still lives.
		Patrick Chamoiseau revealed in the interview, to which reference has already been made, that he is a full time probation officer in Fort de France and described his job in the following terms: "...
		Chamoiseau's determination to free himself from the French language which he regards as the very embodiment of colonialism and the freedom he exploits to subvert it by the use of creole expressions, and the unforgettable characters he has created in "Texaco" have announced that he is a formidable force in the literary world.
	www.caricom.org /jsp/projects/personalities/patrick_chamoiseau.jsp?menu=projects (769 words)

	texaco by patrick chamoiseau Free Essays
		In the Skin of the Lion An Examination on the use of Moth Imagery in the Novel "In the Skin of a Lion" is a documentary on the voyage from childhood to adulthood of Patrick Lewis.
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		He was born the son of Patrick Joseph Kennedy, a local politician and successful businessman, and his wife Mary Augusta Hickey Kennedy.
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	Granta: Patrick Chamoiseau
		Chamoiseau is the author of a historical work on the Antilles under Bonaparte and two non-fiction works: In Praise of Creoleness and To Write in a Dominated Country.His novels are Chronique des sept miseres, Solibo le magnifique and, most recently, Texaco which won the Prix Goncourt in 1992.
		Patrick Chamoiseau's intriguing riff on the police procedural is a stunning confirmation of the 'exceptional and original gifts' that have placed him among the world's foremost contemporary writers.
		Chamoiseau's beautiful and moving account of his childhood is also a serious fable about language and power.
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	Books on Patrick Chamoiseau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In prose punctuated by Creolisms and ribald humor, Chamoiseau infuses the universal terrors, joys, and disappointments of a child's early school days with the unique experiences of a Creole boy forced to confront the dominant culture in a c...
		In a Martinique where creatures from folklore walk the land and cultural traditions cling tenuously to life, Patrick Chamoiseau ’s characters confront the crippling heritage of colonialism and the overwhelming advance of modernization with touching dignity, hilarious resourcefulness, and truly courageous joie de vivre.
		In a narrative composed of short sequences, each recounting episodes or developments of moment, and interspersed with extracts from fictive notebooks and from statements by an urban planner, Marie-Sophie Laborieux, the saucy, aging daughter of a slave affranchised by his master, tells the story of the tormented foundation of her people's identity.
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	Amazon.com: Texaco: A Novel: Books: Patrick Chamoiseau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Chamoiseau begins in the present with the arrival of an urban planner, whom the residents of Texaco mistake for Christ.
		Chamoiseau (Creole Folktales) traces the migrations of fl slaves and mulattos throughout Martinique's history.
		Chamoiseau thus demonstrates that the Martinican civilization is itself the harmonious sum of seemingly dissonant parts.
	www.amazon.com /Texaco-Novel-Patrick-Chamoiseau/dp/0679751750 (1849 words)

	Cahier de Littérature Française/Patrick Chamoiseau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Patrick Chamoiseau sait conserver la fraîcheur, l'enthousiasme et l'amusement de ce regard d'enfant, devant les scènes qui lui offrent une vie simple, pauvre en même temps riche en langues et manières d'être.
		C'est à travers ce personnage central que Patrick Chamoiseau retrace la vie quotidienne, la culture créole et son langage doux et harmonieux, les richesses de cette ville antillaise.
		Patrick Chamoiseau est le coauteur d'un manifeste sur la créolité.
	mneia.org /biling/clf/f_auteur/f_chamoi.htm (1695 words)

	Le Web de l’Humanité: Chamoiseau : La venue de l’écrivain à la ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Patrick Chamoiseau : Oui, c’étaient des bribes de petites légendes qui lui parvenaient, du fond de leur éloignement, dans les livres, les bandes dessinées, les histoires qu’on lui racontait, et qui ne faisaient pas partie de son imaginaire fondamental.
		Patrick Chamoiseau :...oui, comme « A bout de souffle.
		Patrick Chamoiseau : Là il y a une profondeur créole qui n’est peut-être pas évidente, vue de l’extérieur.
	www.humanite.presse.fr /infos/info456459 (2365 words)

	Review, buy Chamoiseau, Patrick: School Days, Ecrire en pays dominé, Texaco
		Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau has long been a proponent of "Creolity," a literary movement that seeks to preserve the character of Creole language and culture against the threat of assimilation into French ways of speaking and thinking.
		In Texaco, Patrick Chamoiseau is not scared of reimagining history in order to illuminate an essential truth about his homeland, Martinique.
		"Chamoiseau is a writer who has the sophistication of the modern novelist, and it is from that position (as an heir of Joyce and Kafka) that he holds out his hand to the oral prehistory of literature.
	booksall.net /chamoiseau-patrick (1389 words)

	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; A Murder? No, a Universe On the Edge of Oblivion - New York Times
		Solibo the storyteller, the central figure of Patrick Chamoiseau's ''Solibo Magnificent,'' dies on the very first page of this tragicomic novel of Martinican Creoles, and he dies in an impossible way: ''snickt by the word,'' as Mr.
		Chamoiseau's purpose and a sign of the deftness of the translation of this novel from the French and Creole by Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokurov.
		Chamoiseau, emerged from a colonized country to create an embellished version of the colonizers' language.
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	You found: Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows in the Book section. Paperback. Bison Bks Corp \| 0803264267 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		First published in France in 1987, Chamoiseau's debut novel is reminiscent of the work of Gabriel García Márquez and Salman Rushdie in its wild tumbling cataracts of language, its host of characters, and its freewheeling use of magical realism.
		Chamoiseau structures his tale like a collection of oral histories, dipping in and out of the life stories of minor characters, circling back and forth in time to cover a wide range of topics from slavery to World War II to relations between the white and fl Martinicans.
		Included are several poems that Chamoiseau wrote that evoke the people, places, etc. These poems were written as part of the planning process of the book and even though they were left out the text of the book, they capture the spirit.
	www.ohwowshopping.com /book/chronicle-of-the-seven-sorrows-0803264267.html (1021 words)

	Patrick Chamoiseau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chamoiseau is the author of a historical work on the Antilles under Bonaparte and two non-fiction works: In Praise of Creoleness (co-author) and To Write in a Dominated Country.
		He has also published a volume of Caribbean folk tales, a guide to Martinique and a two-volume memoir, Childhood and School Days.
		Patrick Chamoiseau, biography, bibliography, interview, and links (in French), "Ã®le en Ã®le", City University of New York, 2002-2003.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patrick_Chamoiseau (141 words)

	Patrick Chamoiseau
		Den kreolske författaren Patrick Chamoiseau har inte sparat många mödor under de fem år han nedtecknat kåkstadens Texacos mytologi, dess förhistoria och förvandling under två århundraden.
		Det är denna magiska krönika som Marie-Sophie försökt komma åt i sina skrivhäften och som författaren Chamoiseau utvecklar till ett kreolskt-franskt epos.
		På samma sätt belyser Patrick Chamoiseaus bok och många andra sk postkoloniala författare våra västerländska kulturvärden, och erbjuder oss en möjlighet att se oss själva och det arv vi lever under.
	www.angelfire.com /sk2/skrivkladan/patrick.html (587 words)

	Patrick Chamoiseau - Texaco.
		Patrick Chamoiseau a sans doute écrit, avec Texaco, le grand livre de l'espérance de la l'amertume du peuple antillais, depuis l'horreur des chaînes jusqu'au mensonge de la politique de développement moderne.
		Chamoiseau se définit clairement comme un " marqueur de paroles ", situé près d'une frontière au tracé complexe et fragile, celle qui sépare la littérature orale et la littérature écrite.
		Le risque que court Chamoiseau, en toute conscience probablement, c'est celui de voir sa littérature mise en avant pour de mauvaises raisons, au premier rang desquelles vient le goût bien connu de l'exotisme, le goût suspect des combats de " nèg " ou de " milâtes " avec les " céhêresses ".
	www.zananas-martinique.com /guides-cartes/chamoiseau-texaco.php (1159 words)

	Texaco -- Patrick Chamoiseau Val Vinokurov Rose-Myriam Réjouis
		Chamoiseau, in this widely praised novel, combines history and fiction to create an exuberant history of fl slavery in Martinique and a study of language itself.
		Chamoiseau's brilliantly captures the voices of his characters and his energetic and creative writing style has been compared to that of Joyce, Rushdie and Rabelais.
		Throughout the book Chamoiseau returns to the theme of language, seen through the use of French and Creole as their political and racial implications are explored
	www.frontlist.com /booklist/71877 (281 words)

	Buy Solibo Magnificent by Patrick Chamoiseau
		In Fort-de-France, Martinique, Solibo (a Creole nickname meaning somersault or pirouette) has dropped dead in front of some of his followers after uttering a non-sequitor, "That potato!" His band of listeners, believing this to be a part of Solibo's act, wait patiently for the great man to rouse himself.
		Chamoiseau manages to create both a rich alleghory on the death of oral tradition, and a keystone cops-style farce.
		The style and language that Chamoiseau plays with here is a delight to read, and takes on an added weight considering the setting.
	www.mircscripts.com /shop/0679751769/Solibo_Magnificent.html (247 words)

	French Forum : The "wounds of locality": living and writing the local in Patrick Chamoiseau's Ecrire en pays ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In the debate over the place of Caribbean culture in an increasingly interconnected, globalized world, the Martinican writers Edouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau could be deemed to occupy antithetical positions in spire of their avowed friendship and their numerous cross-citings and collaborative projects.
		Chamoiseau's notion of Creolite or creoleness is, for its part, often cast as a retrograde and reactionary attachment to a fixed, mythologized Creole identity, a root identity.
		As with all binary oppositions, this one results in a simplification; here, it is Chamoiseau's views on the possibility and necessity of maintaining the notion of locality in an increasingly interconnected world that are subject to reductive readings.
	static.highbeam.com /f/frenchforum/january012003/thewoundsoflocalitylivingandwritingthelocalinpatri/index.html (270 words)

	School Days by Patrick Chamoiseau, ISBN 0803214774 And How Free Can the Press Be ?
		School Days (Chemin-d'ecole) is a captivating narrative based on Patrick Chamoiseau's childhood in Fort-de-France, Martinique.
		Along the way we are also introduced to Big Bellybutton, the class scapegoat, whose tales of Creole heroes and heroines, magic, zombies, and fantastic animals provide a fertile contrast to the imported French fairy tales told in school.
		In prose punctuated by Creolisms and ribald humor, Chamoiseau infuses the universal terrors, joys, and disappointments of a child's early school days with the unique experiences of a Creole boy forced to confront the dominant culture in a colonial school.
	www.pastaconcerto.com /patrick.htm (426 words)

	Salon \| Books: Solibo Magnificent
		What interests Chamoiseau is the gap between the official story of Solibo's death, which is documented in police lingo and formal French, and the characters' drunken and endearingly philosophical explanations of what happened.
		Chamoiseau is a cunning and original writer, but not always a likable one.
		The energy of Chamoiseau's sentences and the freshness of his wildly inventive language are infectious.
	www.salon.com /books/1998/04/03sneaks.html (350 words)

	NEW WRITING: From the South - NI 339 - Texaco
		Patrick Chamoiseau's novel is an ambitious narrative history of the Caribbean island of Martinique, tracking the growth of a shanty-town named 'Texaco' after a nearby oil depot.
		Chamoiseau tells the story of the epic struggle of the Creole underclass to carve out of an uncaring and unfair society their own unique place.
		Patrick Chamoiseau was born in 1953 in Fort de France, Martinique, where he now lives.
	www.newint.org /issue339/texaco.htm (2487 words)

	Mots Pluriels Kathleen Gyssels
		The créoliste group, formed by Patrick Chamoiseau, Raphaël Confiant and Jean Bernabé, has repeatedly made the same chilling observation: the Internet traps ex-colonized populations; it gives them a false impression of autonomy and better access to, and control of, the surrounding world.
		As Patrick Chamoiseau makes clear in his prizewinning novel Texaco (1992), people of African, European and Asian descent have all brought their own baggage to the New World.
		Together with Chamoiseau, Glissant is nostalgic for a time when the Diverse, as proclaimed by Victor Segalen, was still something to learn about very slowly, for which you needed a lot of time, and a long, difficult, risky journey.
	www.arts.uwa.edu.au /MotsPluriels/MP1801kg.html (6206 words)

	Books in Brief: Nonfiction - New York Times
		Childhood, in Patrick Chamoiseau's slim memoir, is the memory of a ramshackle wooden house in Fort-de-France, Martinique, whose ancient recesses harbored families, merchants, ants, rats, restless spirits and, depending on the season, dust or rain.
		A prequel to ''School Days'' (1997), it follows the young Chamoiseau as he prowls the house like a spoiled god, stalking insects, discovering fire and tools and his place in the city, until he gazes up at a movie screen and glimpses the 20th century.
		And Chamoiseau's capricious, sometimes precious French, well translated by Carol Volk, can lurch from the bracing (''Suffering is a harsh vaccine'') to the bewildering (''In the streets only the overexcited persist, or the adversaries of a misfortune that forbids lifting a foot'').
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	You found: Texaco in the Book section. Paperback. Vintage Books \| 0679751750 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In Texaco, Patrick Chamoiseau is not scared of reimagining history in order to illuminate an essential truth about his homeland, Martinique.
		Chamoiseau begins in the present with the arrival of an urban planner, whom the residents of Texaco mistake for Christ.
		It then spins back in time to the birth of Esternome and the death of his father, who was suspected of witchcraft by a white plantation owner.
	www.ohwowshopping.com /book/texaco-0679751750.html (276 words)

	Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism/TEXACO & SOLIBO MAGNIFICENT ~ TWO REVIEWS OF WORK BY PATRICK CHAMOISEAU, by ...
		Soon, he falls into Marie-Sophie’s hands, and she begins telling him how it all began, from her father Esternome’s tales of the end of slavery to her own early life in “City.” The narrative Marie-Sophie goes on to spin is essentially the history of a people with an oral tradition but without written records.
		Chamoiseau directs our sympathies to the characters of the latter world, who are harassed by an uncomprehending police force.
		The twist is that the exploration of the loss of this older culture is in the pained voice of the word scratcher, “a pathetic gatherer of elusive things,” who may be part of the problem.
	www.angelfire.com /wa2/margin/revChamoiseau.html (2389 words)

	RCF - Book Reviews
		Chamoiseau’s writing, via Coverdale’s charged and inventive translation, bristles with energy, opening up portals into the Creole dialect with Rabelaisian gusto.
		Chamoiseau’s classmates are for the most part ostracized from any hope of a future in the colonies, and Big Bellybutton’s inability to culturally assimilate ultimately crushes his spirit.
		Chamoiseau’s novel Texaco won him the Prix Goncourt in 1992, and his Creole Folktales is already available in English.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /review/bookreviews/97_3/schooldays.html (236 words)

	Chamoiseau, Patrick - île en île
		Patrick Chamoiseau est né le 3 décembre 1953 à; Fort-de-France (Martinique).
		"Créolité Bites: A Conversation with Patrick Chamoiseau, Raphaël Confiant, and Jean Bernabé".
		Entretien avec Patrick Chamoiseau réalisé par Christopher Yggdre.
	www.lehman.cuny.edu /ile.en.ile/paroles/chamoiseau.html (1303 words)

	Le Web de l’Humanité: Patrick Chamoiseau Le dit du pays enterré - Article paru le 14 février 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Avec Biblique des derniers gestes, Patrick Chamoiseau propose un véritable livre somme, au terme d’un travail de sept années, de 1994 à 2001.
		Patrick Chamoiseau, le " marqueur de paroles ", a placé au centre de son proliférant récit la figure symbolique, mi-réelle mi-légendaire, de Balthazar Bodule-Jules " né en toutes époques, en tous lieux et sous toutes oppressions ".
		Patrick Chamoiseau a choisi pour sa part un cheminement radicalement inverse, qui donne à son roman sa prodigieuse vitalité.
	humanite.presse.fr /journal/2002-02-14/2002-02-14-28884 (1006 words)

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