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Black Shack Alley - by Joseph Zobel, Paperback
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- book
- Narrative Type
- book
- Intended Audience
- General/trade
- ISBN
- 9780143133957
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0143133950
ISBN-13
9780143133957
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23038265847
Product Key Features
Book Title
Black Shack Alley
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Classics, Cultural Heritage, Coming of Age, Historical
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
7.1 Oz
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2019-022819
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"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
Dewey Decimal
843.9/14
Synopsis
The semiautobiographical Caribbean novel that explores shifting race relations in early twentieth-century colonial Martinique, with a foreword by Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau A Penguin Classic 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 Jos , a young boy grappling with issues of power and identity in colonial Martinique. As Jos transitions from childhood to young adulthood and from rural plantations to urban Fort-de-France on a quest for upward mobility, he bears witness to and struggles against the various manifestations of white supremacy, both subtle and overt, that will alter the course of his life. His ally in this struggle is his grandmother, M'man Tine, who fights her own weariness to release at least one child from the plantation village, a dirt street lined with the shacks of sugarcane workers. Zobel's masterpiece, the basis for the award-winning film Sugar Cane Alley directed by Euzhan Palcy, is a powerful testament to twentieth-century life in Martinique, with a foreword by award-winning Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau., The semi-autobiographical, Caribbean novel that explores shifting race relations in early twentieth-century colonial Martinique, with a foreword by Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau A Penguin Classic Following in the tradition of Richard Wright's Black Boy , Joseph Zobel's semi-autobiographical 1950 novel Black Shack Alley chronicles the coming-of-age of Jos , a young boy grappling with issues of power and identity in colonial Martinique. As Jos transitions from childhood to young adulthood and from rural plantations to urban Fort-de-France on a quest for upward mobility, he bears witness to and struggles against the various manifestations of white supremacy, both subtle and overt, that will alter the course of his life. His ally in this struggle is his grandmother, M'man Tine, who fights her own weariness to release at least one child from the plantation village, a dirt street lined with the shacks of sugarcane workers. Zobel's masterpiece, the basis for the award-winning film Sugar Cane Alley , is a powerful testament to twentieth-century life in Martinique, with a foreword by award-winning Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau., The semiautobiographical Caribbean novel that explores shifting race relations in early twentieth-century colonial Martinique, with a foreword by Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau A Penguin Classic 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 adulthood and from rural plantations to urban Fort-de-France on a quest for upward mobility, he bears witness to and struggles against the various manifestations of white supremacy, both subtle and overt, that will alter the course of his life. His ally in this struggle is his grandmother, M'man Tine, who fights her own weariness to release at least one child from the plantation village, a dirt street lined with the shacks of sugarcane workers. Zobel's masterpiece, the basis for the award-winning film Sugar Cane Alley directed by Euzhan Palcy, is a powerful testament to twentieth-century life in Martinique, with a foreword by award-winning Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau.
LC Classification Number
PQ3949.Z6R813 2020
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