Name: The Noir Atlantic: Chester Himes and the Birth of the Francophone African Crime Novel (en Inglés)
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Author: Higginson, Pim
ISBN: 9781846318696

portada The Noir Atlantic: Chester Himes and the Birth of the Francophone African Crime Novel (en Inglés)

The Noir Atlantic: Chester Himes and the Birth of the Francophone African Crime Novel (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Pim Higginson

Editorial

Liverpool University Press

Año

2013

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

216

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23.1x15.5x1.3 cm

Peso

0.38 kg.

ISBN

1846318696

ISBN13

9781846318696

Categorías

Francia
África
Literatura: historia y crítica

The Noir Atlantic: Chester Himes and the Birth of the Francophone African Crime Novel (en Inglés)

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Reseña del libro "The Noir Atlantic: Chester Himes and the Birth of the Francophone African Crime Novel (en Inglés)"

The Noir Atlantic follows the influence of African American author Chester Himes on Francophone African crime fiction. In 1953, Himes emigrated to Paris; he struggled there, just as he had in the United States. In 1957, his luck changed: the famous French Série noire brought out the first installment of his "Harlem" crime series, La reine des pommes. Suddenly, he was a household name in France. Later, he would also have a significant influence on Francophone African writers; for them, Himes's blend of absurdist humor and violence offered an alternative to a high literary paradigm implanted during the colonial era. Likewise, his heterogeneous identity as American, black, and a writer of "French" bestsellers modeled an escape from the centripetal pull of the Métropole. Starting with Abasse Ndione's depictions of Senegal's marijuana-smoking subculture in La Vie en spirale (1982) and ending with Mongo Beti's 2001 Branle-bas en noir et blanc, set in Yaoundé, Cameroon, Francophone African crime fiction rejected French criteria of literary success; it embraced a new postcolonial aesthetic that emphasized entertaining the reader while making a living. The Noir Atlantic demonstrates why turning to what this study calls a "frivolous literary" mode represented a profound shift in perspective that anticipated more recent developments such as littérature monde.