Joseph Zobel
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Joseph Zobel (born April 26, 1915, in Martinique, died June 18, 2006 in Alès, France) is the author of several novels and short-stories in which social issues are at the forefront. Although his most famous novel, "La Rue Cases-Nègres", was published some twenty years after the great authors of Negritude published their works, Zobel was once asked if he considered himself "the novelist of Negritude?"[1]
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His most famous novel, La Rue Cases-Nègres (often translated as Black Shack Alley or Sugar Cane Alley), is an account of a young boy raised by his grandmother in a post-slavery, but still plantation-based, Martinique. Zobel stated that the novel was his version of Richard Wright's Black Boy in that they are both semi-autobiographical.[1] The novel was banned for twenty years after its publication in Martinique.
The novel was adapted to the screen by Euzhan Palcy in 1982.
Joseph Zobel spent some time in Senegal, and retired to the southern part of France.
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[edit] External links
- Obituary in The Guardian, 1 July 2006
- Reference Website on Joseph ZOBEL (French Language):[1]
