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An edition of The convict and the colonel (1998)

The convict and the colonel

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The life of Medard Aribot - Martiniquan artist, convict, madman, legend - spans much of the twentieth century. Born in 1901 when slavery was a living memory, Medard was banished to the Devil's Island penal colony because, people say, he carved the "impertinent" bust of a colonel hoisted overhead by rioters during a 1925 election-day protest that ended in massacre. Today, the miniature gingerbread-style house he built on his return to Martinique has become a popular tourist attraction.

Richard Price draws on long-term ethnography, archival documents, newspapers, old love letters, cinema, street-theater, and Caribbean fiction and poetry to explore how one generation's powerful historical metaphors could so quickly become the next generation's trivial pursuit.

Using the election-day massacre and the life of Aribot as emblems of Martinique's transition from colonialism to modernity, Price shows how the fishing village he encountered on his first trip to Martinique in 1962 has been transformed by a heavily assisted welfare-based consumer economy. And how Medard's art and life, once a subversive symbol of anticolonial sentiment, has been silenced by the contemporary rush to modernity...or has it?

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Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Pages
284

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Cover of: The Convict and the Colonel
The Convict and the Colonel: A Story of Colonialism and Resistance in the Caribbean
July 2006, Duke University Press
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
Cover of: El presidiario y el coronel
El presidiario y el coronel
2005, Ediciones Callejón
in Spanish
Cover of: The convict and the colonel
The convict and the colonel
1998, Beacon Press
in English
Cover of: El Presidiario y el coronel/ The Prisinor and the Colonel
El Presidiario y el coronel/ The Prisinor and the Colonel
Publisher unknown
Paperback in Spanish

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-281).

Published in
Boston, Mass

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
972.98/2
Library of Congress
F2084.8 .P75 1998, F2081.8 .P75 1998, F2084.8.P75 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 284 p. :
Number of pages
284

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL682807M
Internet Archive
convictcolonel00pric
ISBN 10
0807046507
LCCN
97029522
OCLC/WorldCat
37331642
Library Thing
415227
Goodreads
1896848

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