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Along with their freedom, enslaved peoples are robbed of their names and languages, those important measures of identity. But their memories can never be taken from them. In an homage to the colonized races of his native Martinique, Prix Goncourt winner Chamoiseau spins a fable of a "vieux-negre," an elderly black man who has toiled on a sugar plantation for as long as anyone can remember. Now aged and silent, he is invisible ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More