Małe jest wielkie, czyli karaibski model dla świata
SMALL IS BIG, or the Caribbean Model for the World

Summary/Abstract: The discussion of Patrick Chamoiseau’s novel Texaco is used by the authoras a presentation of the Caribbean model. On the example of Texaco, one ofthe districts of the capital of Martinique, a panorama of the social historyof the descendantsof slaves up to the present situation is shown. It is a specificfamily saga, an anthem in honor of resistance and the struggle for survivalthrough the solidarity of the inhabitants of the favela. At the same time, theMartiniquan author’s novel is an interesting narrative experiment, recreating thetradition of an oral story, combined with a diary, reporter’s notes and elementsof magical realism. The complexity of the presented world is expressed by thecomplexity of narrative structures. Despite the inevitable images of the tragicfate of the inhabitants, their history, the tone of hope for the emergence of a newsocial order, the Caribbean order, which can be used as a model for the world bybuilding mutual compromise on relations, prevails.

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