Black Shack Alley
$36.99
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
12 May 2020
Summary
The semiautobiographical Caribbean novel that explores shifting race relations in early twentieth-century colonial Martinique, with a foreword by Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau
Following in the tradition of Richard Wright’s Black Boy, Joseph Zobel’s semiautobiographical 1950 novel Black Shack Alley chronicles the coming-of-age of Jose, a young boy grappling with issues of power and identity in colonial Martinique. As Jose transitions from childhood to young adu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143133957 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143133950 |
| Author: | Joseph Zobel |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 12 May 2020 |
| Weight: | 193g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 18mm |
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Critics Review
“Zobel relays Jos
“Zobel relays José’s pain and frustration in measured, matter-of-fact prose. This perfectly captures the education of an outsider in the shadow of colonization.”
—Publishers Weekly
About The Author
Joseph Zobel
Joseph Zobel was born in 1915 in Petit-Bourg, Martinique. He published many collections of stories and a volume of verse, Incantation pour un retour au pays natal. His novel La fate Paris is the continuation of La rue cases-negres (translated as Black Shack Alley). A noted poet and a gifted sculptor as well as a writer, Zobel retired to a small village in southern France in 1974 and died in 2006.
Patrick Chamoiseau is the author of Slave Old Man (2018), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction and was an Editor’s Choice of The New York Times Book Review, and Texaco (1998), which won the Prix Goncourt and was a New York Times Notable Book, among other works.
Keith Q. Warner, professor of French and Caribbean studies at George Mason University, is a native of Trinidad. He is author of Kaiso- The Trinidad Calypso and editor of Critical Perspectives on Leon-Gontran Damas.
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