Patrick Chamoiseau: writer
William Parker: writer
Book, 142 pages in English and French
Exchange of letters between William Parker and Patrick Chamoiseau
Translation of William Parker letters into Franch: Alexandre Pierrepont
Translation of Patrick Chamoiseau letters into English: Ìyá Aláà??
In February 2022, at the Sons d’hiver festival, New York bass player William Parker presented his Trail of Tears musical fresco, evoking and invoking the spirits of a tragic moment in North American history: the deportation of the Cherokee to lands they believed belonged to no one. At almost the same time, Martinican writer Patrick Chamoiseau was returning from his search for the wreck of the Leusden, the slave ship that sank with its “cargo” in 1738, on the Guiana coast. In order to tackle such subjects in the Whole-World, and to sketch out a new “cartography of the sensitive”, Patrick Chamoiseau and William Parker have kept up a correspondence, between the intimate and the universal, or the pluriversal, during the few weeks surrounding the Trail of Tears performance. The full text of this correspondence is brought together for the first time in this collection.
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