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Two Years in the French West Indies

von Lafcadio Hearn

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In October 1887 the writer and translator Lafcadio Hearn sailed from New York to Martinique. Intending to stay for a few months, he remained for two years. He viewed French-ruled Martinique as an exotic fusion of European, African and Asian influences, the Creole society par exellence. Describing the island's landscape, its flora and fauna, its colonial architecture and rural villages, he provides a picture of a Caribbean colony where slavery was a recent memory and race an all-importan matter of identity.… (mehr)

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The Day the World Ended von Gordon Thomas (IsolaBlue)
IsolaBlue: After reading Hearn's wonderful observations of French Creole culture in the city of St. Pierre, Martinique, circa 1888, it is fascinating - and sad - to read Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts' THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED which tells us about the volcanic eruption that totally destroyed St. Pierre and all but two of its inhabitants in 1902. Reading Thomas and Witts' book on the heels of Hearn's makes us realize that we had the privilege - through Hearns - of meeting some of the wonderful, fascinating and very real people who later died under the ash of Mount Pelee.… (mehr)

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Hearn is well known for his writings on Japan where he lived and taught in his later years, and somewhat known for his writings on New Orlesns, but this is one of the lesser known parts of his life and work.

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Facing the title page is a photograph of 'La Montagne Pelée. Hearn's descriptions of the society of Saint-Pierre, Martinique is not only beautiful writing, but it is one of the few descriptions of the area which survives after the 1902 eruption of Mt. Pelée, which killed all but one of a city known as the Paris of the West Indies. (

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A long, narrow, graceful steel steamer, with two masts and an orange-yellow chimney,—taking on cargo at Pier 49 East River. Through her yawning hatchways a mountainous piling up of barrels is visible below;—there is much rumbling and rattling of steam- winches, creaking of derrick-booms, groaning of pulleys as the freight is being lowered in. A breezeless July morning, and a dead heat,—87° already.

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In October 1887 the writer and translator Lafcadio Hearn sailed from New York to Martinique. Intending to stay for a few months, he remained for two years. He viewed French-ruled Martinique as an exotic fusion of European, African and Asian influences, the Creole society par exellence. Describing the island's landscape, its flora and fauna, its colonial architecture and rural villages, he provides a picture of a Caribbean colony where slavery was a recent memory and race an all-importan matter of identity.

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