Code Noir : fictions /
Canisia Lubrin's debut fiction combines immense literary and political force. Its departs from the infamous real-life Code Noir, a set of historical decrees passed in 1685 by King Louis XIV of France defining the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire. The original Code had fifty-n...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Soft Skull,
[2025].
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| Summary: | Canisia Lubrin's debut fiction combines immense literary and political force. Its departs from the infamous real-life Code Noir, a set of historical decrees passed in 1685 by King Louis XIV of France defining the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire. The original Code had fifty-nine articles. Code Noir has fifty-nine linked fictions, vivid, unforgettable, multilayer fragments filled with globe-wise characters who desire to live beyond the ruins of the past. Ranging in style from contemporary realism to dystopia, from futuristic fantasy to historical fiction, this inventive, shape-shifting braid of stories exists far beyond the enclosures of official decrees. This is a timely, daring, virtuosic book by a young literary star. The stories are accompanied by fifty-nine black-and-white drawings, one at the start of each fiction, by acclaimed visual artist Torkwase Dyson. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 395 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781593767969 159376796X |