Joseph Zobel

"Joseph Zobel (1915-2006) is one of the best-known Francophone Caribbean authors, and is internationally recognised for his novel La Rue Cases-Náegres (1950). Yet very little is known about his other novels, and most readings of La Rue Cases-Náegres consider the text in isolation. Through a series of close readings of the author's six published novels, with supporting references drawn from his published short stories, poetry and diaries, Joseph Zobel: Nâegritude and the Novel generates new insights into Zobel's highly original decision to develop Nâegritude's project of affirming pride in black identity through the novel and social realism." -- Publisher's description