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200 14$aThe noir Atlantic$b[electronic resource] $eChester Himes and the birth of the francophone African crime novel /$fPim Higginson
210   $aLiverpool $cLiverpool University Press$d2011
215   $a1 online resource (224 p.)
225 1 $aContemporary French and francophone cultures
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aHalf-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Frivolous Literary; 1 "Pas de litte?rature": Abasse Ndione and the Rise of Crime; 2 Minor Mistranslations: Simon Njami and the Making of a Parisianist Himes; 3 Crime Pays: Achille Ngoye and the Se?rie noire; 4 Ethnographic Erotics: Bolya and the Writing of the Other; 5 Terreur Rose: Terreur Rose: Kouty, me?moire de sang and the Gendering of Noir; 6 Going out Blazing: Mongo Beti's Last Two Novels; Bibliography; Index
330   $aNoir Atlantic follows the influence of African American author Chester Himes on Francophone African crime fiction. In 1953, Chester Himes emigrated to Paris where he struggled to publish, just as he had in the United States, until the "Harlem Domestic Series" transformed the author into a cult figure for a generation of Parisian readers who appreciated the blend of absurdist humor and violence. For African authors, these novels also modeled an escape from a high literary paradigm inherited from the colonial experience. Himes's ambiguous role as a famous "French" writer paradoxically also made 
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