BEWARE OF SPOILERS. I DON'T HIDE OR PROMOTE MY REVIEWS.Evocative but baffling. The hypnotic writing kept me going.The main character is Roselie, a handsome, French-speaking black woman painter born on the Caribbean island of Gaudeloupe. She's aloof. She loves to paint, but has never made it big o...
In her 2002 novel, Who Slashed Celanire’s Throat? Maryse Condé uses a number of methods to rewrite history. History, as a narrative, is influenced not only by the perspective of the narrator or writer, but also by the intended audience of the narrative. The mainstream history of the late 19th a...
Victoire: My Mother's Mother, though the publisher labels as fiction, is based on the life and facts of Maryse Condé's grandmother. Victoire was an illiterate, white skinned woman she never met, who worked as a highly reputable cook for a white Creole family, the Walbergs, a connection that her m...