Code Noir
| Autor: | Lubrin, Canisia |
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| EAN: | 9781593767969 |
| Sachgruppe: | Belletristik |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 416 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 04.02.2025 |
| Untertitel: | Fictions |
| Schlagworte: | Fiction - Historical |
32,50 €*
Dieses Produkt erscheint am 4. Februar 2025
"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, multi-layer 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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