Solibo Magnificent.
Solibo Magnificent, by Patrick Chamoiseau. Trans., Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokurov. New York: Vintage International, 1999. In Fort-de-France, at Carnival, Solibo Magnificent, a highly respected storyteller, is spinning a tale when, after pronouncing the words patat' sa!--that potato--he dies. His listeners are so enthralled (or so drunk),...

Solibo Magnificent.
All novels, Mikhail Bakhtin says, are about language. Narratives may engage, characters may inspire empathy or stir up antagonism, but it's the layering and interweaving of languages, the confrontation of speech styles and dialects that best define the novel as a form. And it is the novel that best represents...

THE FRENCH MUSICAL THEATER: MAINTAINING CONTROL IN CARIBBEAN COLONIES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, musicians, poets, philosophers, and patrons of the arts were extremely fascinated with the "exotic"--that huge realm of ideas and events that thrived on a sense of the Other. In the Americas, displaced Amerindians and enslaved Africans, deprived of equality and freedom, were "rendered...

Island ALLIES of a REVOLUTION.
From munitions shipments to the first salute of the new nation, the West indies played a key role in the American battle for independence "If not for the West Indies, the United States would still be a British colony," historian Gregor Williams of Saint Lucia as we...

Solibo Magnificent.
Patrick Chamoiseau. Solibo Magnificent. New York: Pantheon, 1998. 190 pp. $23.00. Solibo Magnificent, first published in French and Martinican Creole in 1988, is the second of Patrick Chamoiseau's novels to be available in an English translation (the first one is the more recent Texaco, 1992 [1997]). The...

Negritude and Literary Criticism: The History and Theory of "Negro-African" Literature in French.
Belinda Elizabeth Jack. Westport: Greenwood P, 1996. 203 pp. $55.00. Reviewed by A. James Arnold University of Virginia Greenwood Press has done a real service to U.S. scholars of African and diaspora literatures in French by publishing Belinda E. Jack's Oxford doctoral dissertation. Although the book displays...

Famous volcanoes of the world.
READ A TIME LINE Volcanoes rumble to life all over the world. Read the time line to learn about some famous volcanic eruptions. Then answer the questions that follow. 1792 The Mount Unzen volcano in Japan killed about 14,500 people when it erupted....

WOMEN'S 400 HURDLES.
Byline: The Register-Guard EVENT final: JUNE 29, 4:02 p.m. World Record: 52.34 - Hayward Field Record: 53.96 U.S. Record: 52.61 - Olympic `A' Standard: 55.60 Meet Record: 52.95 - Olympic `B' Standard: 56.50 ANALYSIS Attempting to reclaim...

Orphan narratives; the postplantation literature of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse.
9780813926414 Orphan narratives; the postplantation literature of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse. Loichot, Valerie. U. of Virginia Press 2007 244 pages $19.50 Paperback New world studies PS374 Loichot...

New study suggests connection between MS and the environment.
While scientists do not know all of the risk factors for developing MS, it is generally believed that genetics, geography, and an as-yet unknown environmental factor, such as a bacteria or vires, might each have a role. A new study may point to an environmental trigger for...