Magical Thinking in Chamoiseau's Chemin-d'école: From Quimbois to the Mission civilisatrice.

Autor: Swanson, Lucy
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Zdroj: Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism; Nov2020, Vol. 24 Issue 3, p16-30, 15p
Abstrakt: A literary criticism is presented of the book "Chemin-d'école" by Patrick Chamoiseau. The story suggest magico-religious beliefs that should be reincorporated into literature as a means of reasserting their French cultural specificity. It also mentions that the protagonist and his classmates decide to kill their teacher folloing their religious beliefs.
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