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School Days (Chemin-d'ecole)
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School Days (Chemin-d'ecole) Paperback - 1997

by Chamoiseau, Patrick

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University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Very Good softcover . Paper Back. Very Good.
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  • Title School Days (Chemin-d'ecole)
  • Author Chamoiseau, Patrick
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 158
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska
  • Date 1997
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 190129-L19
  • ISBN 9780803263765 / 0803263767
  • Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.58 x 5.02 x 0.47 in (21.79 x 12.75 x 1.19 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Bildungsromane, West Indies, French - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96-24210
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the rear cover

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 animals provide a fertile contrast to the imported French fairy tales told in school. In prose punctuated by Creolisms and ribald humor, Chamoiseau infuses the universal terrors, joys, and disappointments of a child's early school days with the unique experiences of a Creole boy forced to confront the dominant culture in a colonial school.

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 02/01/1997, Page 185
  • Library Journal, 05/01/1997, Page 103
  • New York Times, 03/30/1997, Page 14
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/10/1997, Page 75

About the author

Patrick Chamoiseau's novel, Texaco, won the coveted Prix Goncourt in 1992 and has since been published in fourteen languages. He lives in Martinique. His Creole Folktales recently appeared in a widely praised English translation by Linda Coverdale whose many other translations include Annie Ernaux's A Frozen Woman.

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