Joseph Zobel (April 26, 1915 – June 18, 2006) is the Martinican author of several novels and short-stories in which social issues are at the forefront. Although his most famous novel, La Rue Cases-Nègres, was published some twenty years after the great authors of Negritude published their works, Zobel was once asked if he considered himself "the novelist of Negritude".[1] The novel was adapted for the screen by Euzhan Palcy in 1983 as Sugar Cane Alley.