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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 Serie 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 Metropole. 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 Yaounde, 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 litterature monde.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

• Pełny tytuł: Noir Atlantic
• Autor: Pim Higginson
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 216
• EAN: 9781846318696
• ISBN: 1846318696
• ID: 01299087
• Wydawca: Liverpool University Press
• Waga: 376 g
• Wymiary: 231 × 155 × 13 mm
• Data wydania: 15. August 2013

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