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School Days = Chemin-D'Ecole by Linda Coverdale, Patrick Chamoiseau (1997, Paperback)

Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr
Publication Date: 1997-03-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0803263767
ISBN-13: 9780803263765
Product ID: EPID728460
Description: A writer from Martinique recounts the story of his boyhood experiences in a school that attempted to erase his Creole heritage and substitute a "pure" French one. The author's struggle to maintain his identity is a recurring theme.
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Synopsis
A writer from Martinique recounts the story of his boyhood experiences in a school that attempted to erase his Creole heritage and substitute a "pure" French one. The author's struggle to maintain his identity is a recurring theme.

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Publication Date:1997-03-01

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Height:8.5 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:7.2 oz

Publisher's Note
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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"[A] rich and complex read, in which tense, reference and time shift at a speed that rewards patience."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - Jonathan Levi (03/02/1997)

"In 'School Days, a less complex [than his novel 'Texaco'] but equally original book, Chamoiseau attempts to unravel or at least augment...history by telling just one story, that of the timorous little boy who was himself when he first began to read and write. The boy's experiences are universal...but...Chamoiseau wrestles with a special difficulty. He discovers that his native tongue is viewed with contempt by those who instruct him....The boy ultimately learns to express himself in French, but he treasures Creole..."
Washington Post Book World - Linda Wolfe (05/25/1997)

"Chamoiseau's particular gift is to be both buoyant in spirit and trenchant in observation....What background can have given rise to such a bewitching writer? And where can [one]read more of him? 'School Days,' a light-footed memoir, provides a single vibrant answer to both questions as it retraces the author's early boyhood."
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