School Days

Name: School Days
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ISBN: 9780803263765

ISBN-10: 0803263767

ISBN-13: 9780803263765

Edition: 1997

Authors: Patrick Chamoiseau, Linda Coverdale

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School Days(Chemin-d’Ecole) is a captivating narrative based on Patrick Chamoiseau’s childhood in Fort-de-France, Martinique. It is a revelatory account of the colonial world that shaped one of the liveliest and most creative voices in French and Caribbean literature today. Through the eyes of the boy Chamoiseau, we meet his severe, Francophile teacher, a man intent upon banishing all remnants of Creole from his students’ speech. This domineering man is succeeded by an equally autocratic teacher, an Africanist and proponent of “Negritude.” Along the way we are also introduced to Big Bellybutton, the class scapegoat, whose tales of Creole heroes and heroines, magic, zombies, and fantastic…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 3/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 158
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Linda Coverdale is the awarding-winning translator of many French works and has been honored with the title of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters for her contribution to French literature.