This thesis examines the challenges of translating Patrick Chamoiseau's “Une enfance créole,” paying particular attention to the author's use of Martinican Creole. It contains an overview of Chamoiseau's work and the Créolité movement in the context of the history and sociopolitics of Martinique and preceding intellectual movements Négritude and Antillanité. The thesis reviews contemporary translation theory to compile a list of tactics suited to translating hybrid, diglossic literature. Finally, a method is presented for translating such literature along with a new translation of a passage from “Antan d'enfance.” Subjects treated in the discussion of the translation include typical issues like tense shifts, fluctuations in register, and prosody; also discussed are cultural issues in translation, including Creole, realia, and racialized terms. An interview with the translator Carol Volk is included as an appendix.