Black Shack Alley = La rue Cases-N egres / by Joseph Zobel ; translated and introduced by Keith Q. Warner ; preface by Christian Filostrat ; [cover design by Tom Gladden, with drawings by Marie-Th er ese Mathurin].

By:

Zobel, Joseph [author.]

Contributor(s):

Language: English Original language: French Washington, D.C. : Three Continents Press, [1980] 1980Edition: First English language editionDescription: xxiii, 185 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0914478680
9780914478683
0914478672
9780914478676

Other title:

Rue Cases-N egres

Uniform titles:

Rue Cases-N egres. English

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

F Zob

LOC classification:

PQ3949.Z6 R813 1980

Action note:

080597 Charm

Summary: Publisher description: This work tells the story of growing up black in the colonial world of Martinique. Not only does the young hero, Jos e, have to fight the ignorance and poverty of plantation life, but he must also learn to survive the all-pervasive French cultural saturation--to remain true to himself, proud of his race and his family. 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. First published in 1950, La rue cases-n egres was inspired by Richard Wright's Black Boy. "Everything in it is autobiographical," wrote Zobel, "but the story was patterned after my own aesthetics of composition." The movie adaptation, honored at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, has been released in the U.S. as Sugar Cane Alley.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	National Library of Jamaica	Daphne Douglas Reading Room	F Zob (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		1000000008612
Books	OCLC Data	Rare Books Floor	F Zob (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		0000000004428

Publisher description: This work tells the story of growing up black in the colonial world of Martinique. Not only does the young hero, Jos e, have to fight the ignorance and poverty of plantation life, but he must also learn to survive the all-pervasive French cultural saturation--to remain true to himself, proud of his race and his family. 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. First published in 1950, La rue cases-n egres was inspired by Richard Wright's Black Boy. "Everything in it is autobiographical," wrote Zobel, "but the story was patterned after my own aesthetics of composition." The movie adaptation, honored at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, has been released in the U.S. as Sugar Cane Alley.

080597 Charm

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