The noir Atlantic : Chester Himes and the birth of the francophone African crime novel / Pim Higginson.

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Higginson, Pim

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 20.Publication details: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 216 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781846317040
1846317045
9781846317132
1846317134

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Noir Atlantic.DDC classification:

843.08720996 22

LOC classification:

PQ3984 .H54 2011eb
PS3515.I713 Z63 2011eb

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Contents:

Introduction : the frivolous literary -- "Pas de littérature" : Abasse Ndione and the rise of crime -- Minor mistranslations : Simon Njami and the making of the Parisianist Himes -- Crime pays : Achille Ngoye and the Série noire -- Ethnographic erotics : Bolya and the writing of the other -- Terreur Rose : Kouty, mémoire de sang and the gendering of noir -- Going out blazing : Mongo Beti's last two novels.

Summary: Noir Atlantic follows the influence of African American author Chester Himes on Francophone African crime fiction. For African authors, Paris-based Chester Hime's novels also modeled an escape from a high literary paradigm inherited from the colonial experience.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-208) and index.

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Noir Atlantic follows the influence of African American author Chester Himes on Francophone African crime fiction. For African authors, Paris-based Chester Hime's novels also modeled an escape from a high literary paradigm inherited from the colonial experience.

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