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"Those who are nauseated by today's monstrous 'kitschification' of childhood (literary kitschification, media kitschification, advertising kitschification) will find in this book a rehabilitation of childhood; of an unsentimentalized childhood, that was real, difficult, plebian, and worthy of love."--Milan Kundera--Milan Kundera "Chamoiseau's language is a curious mixed breed, enough classical French to please the Academy and enough Creole to paint his subject. It is a sophisticated mixture of music and meaning."--Los Angeles Times--Los Angeles Times "An engaging and warm-hearted introduction to Chamoiseau's world."--Times Literary Supplement--Times Literary Supplement "A joy to read."--Chicago Tribune--Chicago Tribune "Imaginative and moving." --Washington Post. "Sardonic and lyrical."--Publishers Weekly--Publishers Weekly "A bewitching writer . . . Chamoiseau's particular gift is to be both buoyant in spirit and trenchant in observation."--New York Times Book Review--New York Times Book Review
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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 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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- EditorialUniversity of Nebraska Press
- Año de publicación1997
- ISBN 10 0803214774
- ISBN 13 9780803214774
- EncuadernaciónTapa dura
- Número de páginas146
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ISBN 13: 9780803214774
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