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Childhood =: Antan d'enfance by Patrick Chamoiseau is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is Childhood =: Antan d'enfance about?
Using the playful, orally inspired, and partially invented language for which he is renowned, Patrick Chamoiseau recalls the brilliant, magical universe of his early childhood in Martinique. At the center of this universe is his extraordinarily vigorous mother and her creative, pragmatic ways of coping with poverty and five children. As Chamoiseau presents these first impressions of an exceptional child growing up in a rich Creole culture, he also reflects in oblique but incisive ways on colonia
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Patrick Chamoiseau
- Publisher
- Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780803263826
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Romance, Biography
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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