L'enfant noir
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9782266178945 (2266178946)
Publish date: 2007-08-01
Publisher: Presses Pocket
Pages no: 221
Edition language: French
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Africa,
Read For School,
20th Century,
France,
African Literature
I did have hopes for this book. I thought it would be enlightening in some ways about African historical and political issues. But it wasn't like that. Instead it concentrated on some traditional costumes that to tell you the truth I wasn't much interested in them. Mainly the traditions revolving ar...
Not much happens in this gentle, sentimental little book, but it’s a pleasant read all the same. There seems to be some disagreement about whether The Dark Child is a memoir or an autobiographical novel; my library shelves it as nonfiction, though given the abundant dialogue, the author clearly took...
Not much happens in this gentle, sentimental little book, but it’s a pleasant read all the same. There seems to be some disagreement about whether The Dark Child is a memoir or an autobiographical novel; my library shelves it as nonfiction, though given the abundant dialogue, the author clearly took...
Guinea. According to some sources, this is not a memoir but a novel, or "literature," though the protagonist has the same name as the author. I will approach it as a fictionalized memoir; it is better as an autobiography than it is as a novel. This tale from 1954 fits in the "leaving for school" rat...
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