Black Shack Alley
$37.32
- 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: | 18mm x 130mm x 198mm |
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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
Joseph Zobel
Joseph Zobel was born in 1915 in Petit-Bourg, Martinique. He authored many collections of stories and a volume of verse, Incantation pour un retour au pays natal. His novel La fête Paris is the continuation of La rue cases-nègres (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, born in Martinique, is the author of Slave Old Man (2018), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction and an Editor’s Choice of The New York Times Book Review, and Texaco (1998), winner of the Prix Goncourt and 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 the author of Kaiso: The Trinidad Calypso and editor of Critical Perspectives on Leon-Gontran Damas.
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