{"product_id":"texaco-by-patrick-chamoiseau","title":"‘Texaco’ by Patrick Chamoiseau","description":"\u003ch4\u003ePatrick Chamoiseau’s \u003cem\u003eTexaco\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel built out of oral tradition, tracing the making of a Martinican community from slavery and plantation life through emancipation, migration and the pressures of modernisation.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt its centre is Marie-Sophie Laborieux, who recounts the history of her family and the settlement of Texaco itself, but the book continually exceeds the frame of a single life, combining into a sort of social archive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChamoiseau’s prose is dense, polyphonic and rhythmically unstable, mixing Creole-inflected speech, lyric narration, folklore, political history and bureaucratic fragments. The novel is deeply concerned with how a people survives systems designed to erase, organise or assimilate them, and with the city as both violence and possibility. Originally published in French, from Creole, in 1992, \u003cem\u003eTexaco\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the major novels of Caribbean postcolonial literature: formally unruly, historically saturated, and suspicious of any account of identity that arrives too clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGranta Books, London, 1998. Granta paperback edition; first published in Great Britain in 1997. Paperback. Light shelf wear and rubbing to covers, with minor corner creasing; internally clean and sound. Translated from the French by Rose-Myriam Réjouis and Val Vinokurov.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46287744925779,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/womenintranslation-2026-09-15T161700.479.png?v=1789453036","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/texaco-by-patrick-chamoiseau","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}