A New York Times New and Noteworthy Book douard Glissant's novels, closely tied to the theories he developed in Po tique de la Relation (Poetics of relation), are rich explorations of a deported and colonized people's loss of their own history and the ever-evolving social and political effects this sense of groundlessness has caused in Martinique. In Mahagony Glissant identifies both the malaise of and the potential...