Édouard Glissant (born 1928) is a Martinican playwright, critic, essayist, and novelist. Betsy Wing's previous translations include Paule Constant's White Spirit, Glissant's The Fourth Century, and Hélène Cixous's The Book of Promethea, all available from the University of Nebraska Press.

"In this important French Caribbean writer's world, past is present, and his lush prose demands to be gulped, not read."—Publishers Weekly "The contents of The Overseer's Cabin lift out of a flat page and become a life-world that moves the reader. Without forcing, the book reveals an uncomplicated representation of humanity."—Janelle Adsit, Foreword

• From the Quotidien des Antilles, September 4, 1978Head on FireTrace of the Time BeforeA Pact with PowersTales of Saving FaithThe Lovers' ReliquaryThe Center of TimeBurnt-over MemoriesBestiary: Light and DarkThe Ledger of SufferingActs of WarFirst AnimalIn Two Places at OnceInventory of ToolsSound of Somewhere ElseRock of OpacityFrom the Quotidien des Antilles, September 13, 1978An Attempt to Classify the Relations between the Families Béluse, Targin, Longoué, Celat

Édouard Glissant (born 1928) is a Martinican playwright, critic, essayist, and novelist. Betsy Wing's previous translations include Paule Constant's White Spirit, Glissant's The Fourth Century, and Hélène Cixous's The Book of Promethea, all available from the University of Nebraska Press.

"In this important French Caribbean writer's world, past is present, and his lush prose demands to be gulped, not read."—Publishers Weekly "The contents of The Overseer's Cabin lift out of a flat page and become a life-world that moves the reader. Without forcing, the book reveals an uncomplicated representation of humanity."—Janelle Adsit, Foreword

• From the Quotidien des Antilles, September 4, 1978Head on FireTrace of the Time BeforeA Pact with PowersTales of Saving FaithThe Lovers' ReliquaryThe Center of TimeBurnt-over MemoriesBestiary: Light and DarkThe Ledger of SufferingActs of WarFirst AnimalIn Two Places at OnceInventory of ToolsSound of Somewhere ElseRock of OpacityFrom the Quotidien des Antilles, September 13, 1978An Attempt to Classify the Relations between the Families Béluse, Targin, Longoué, Celat

Édouard Glissant (born 1928) is a Martinican playwright, critic, essayist, and novelist. Betsy Wing's previous translations include Paule Constant's White Spirit, Glissant's The Fourth Century, and Hélène Cixous's The Book of Promethea, all available from the University of Nebraska Press.

"In this important French Caribbean writer's world, past is present, and his lush prose demands to be gulped, not read."—Publishers Weekly "The contents of The Overseer's Cabin lift out of a flat page and become a life-world that moves the reader. Without forcing, the book reveals an uncomplicated representation of humanity."—Janelle Adsit, Foreword

• From the Quotidien des Antilles, September 4, 1978Head on FireTrace of the Time BeforeA Pact with PowersTales of Saving FaithThe Lovers' ReliquaryThe Center of TimeBurnt-over MemoriesBestiary: Light and DarkThe Ledger of SufferingActs of WarFirst AnimalIn Two Places at OnceInventory of ToolsSound of Somewhere ElseRock of OpacityFrom the Quotidien des Antilles, September 13, 1978An Attempt to Classify the Relations between the Families Béluse, Targin, Longoué, Celat