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

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Higginson, Pim
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2011.
Colección:Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 20.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.