Black Shack Alley - Joseph Zobel

The Semiautobiographical Caribbean Novel That Explores Shifting Race Relations In Early Twentieth-century Colonial Martinique, With A Foreword By Martinican Author Patrick Chamoiseau A Penguin Classic Following In The Tradition Of Richard Wrights Black Boy, Joseph Zobels Semiautobiographical 1950 Novel Black Shack Alley Chronicles The Coming-of-age Of Joseacute;, A Young Boy Grappling With Issues Of Power And Identity In Colonial Martinique. As Joseacute; Transitions From Childhood To Young Adulthood And From Rural Plantations To Urban Fort-de-france On A Quest For Upward Mobility, He Bears Witness To And Struggles Against The Various Manifestations Of White Supremacy, Both Subtle And Overt, That Will Alter The Course Of His Life. His Ally In This Struggle Is His Grandmother, Mman Tine, Who Fights Her Own Weariness To Release At Least One Child From The Plantation Village, A Dirt Street Lined With The Shacks Of Sugarcane Workers.