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- Title
Shades of Port-au-Prince: A Noir City.
- Authors
Edwards, Norrell
- Abstract
If the dozens of titles in the noir series of Akashic Books is an indicator of popularity, then crime and noir fiction are having a renaissance. Once shunned as a lower form of literature, this genre now garners increased attention from literary scholars. Crime novels set in cities of the Global South, such as Mumbai and Dakar, have piqued literary critics' interest; postcolonial tensions add an extra layer to the mysteries at hand. In this article, I situate contemporary urban Haitian literature in the postcolonial noir space. I argue for the creation of a new term: the Haitian noir aesthetic. By analyzing three novels set in contemporary Port-au-Prince, I demonstrate how urban Haitian fiction can be read as a Haiti-specific noir genre.
- Subjects
PORT-au-Prince (Haiti); POPULARITY; NOIR fiction; RENAISSANCE; MYSTERY fiction
- Publication
Africa Today, 2019, Vol 65, Issue 4, p40
- ISSN
0001-9887
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/africatoday.65.4.04