Colonial Noir
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Colonial Noir
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Author : Reid Samuel Yalom
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2004
Colonial Noir written by Reid Samuel Yalom and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Photography categories.
"A second major aspect of this work is Yalom's desire to use the lens of Latin American literature - particularly magical realism - to delve into Mexican culture and history. The images in Colonial Noir present a picture of Mexico that highlights a historical side of Mexico of which most foreigners are not aware."--BOOK JACKET.
Darkly Perfect World
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Author : Stanley Orr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Darkly Perfect World written by Stanley Orr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
This book explores how American crime fiction and film have changed in the twentieth century. It shows a noir ethos committed to "authenticating alienation": subjectivity managed through radical polarization of "self" and "other." The author demonstrates that Chandler and Dashiell Hammett arrive at this subject within and against the colonial adventure genre. While the renegades of Joseph Conrad and Louis Becke project a figure vulnerable to shifts in cultural context, the noir protagonist exemplifies alienated selfhood and often performs a "continental operation" against the slippages of the colonial adventurer. But even as Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, and other noir virtuosi persist with this revision of late Victorian adventure, Chester Himes, Dorothy Hughes, and John Okada experiment with hard-boiled alienation for a subversion of noir that resonates throughout literary postmodernism. In their respective avant-garde novels, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, and Paul Auster expose what K.W. Jeter terms the "darkly perfect world" of noir, giving rise to the con men and "connected guys" of contemporary films noirs such as Bryan Singer's The Usual Suspects, David Fincher's Seven, Christopher Nolan's Memento, and Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs.
Pied Noir
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Author : Robert J. Dewar
language : en
Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services
Release Date : 2014-09-05
Pied Noir written by Robert J. Dewar and has been published by Lulu Publishing Services this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-05 with categories.
Robert Dewar lived in Uganda, Tanganyika (present day Tanzania) and Kenya, before moving to South Africa when he was 6 years old. He grew up in Cape Town and Johannesburg, and was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand. Restless, adventurous, battling with periodic bouts of alcoholism, and troubled by his homosexuality, he traveled between South Africa and Britain for two decades, cramming in time as a private investigator, a game ranger, and a business researcher and writer. Aged 47, he finally defeated alcoholism, and found peace in Buckinghamshire, in the beautiful Chiltern Hills, where he lives today. This is a story of victory and defeat, of triumph over adversity. It is a contemporary morality tale.
Code Noir
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Author : Carl J. Ekberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Code Noir written by Carl J. Ekberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Blacks categories.
The Noir Atlantic
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Author : Pim Higginson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011
The Noir Atlantic written by Pim Higginson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Literary Criticism categories.
With the publication in 1953 of his “Harlem Domestic” series, African American noir writer Chester Himes became a cult figure for a generation of Parisian readers—many of whom appreciated his work as much for the break it represented from the dominant colonial-era literary paradigm as for Himes's characteristic blend of violence and dark wit. The Noir Atlantic examines the crucial role played by Himes and others in the emergence of crime fiction across francophone Africa. Through careful textual analysis, Pim Higginson charts the emergence of African noir over the past two decades and redefines the key African and American authors in a broader global context.
Soleil Noir
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Author : Jennifer Anne Boittin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Soleil Noir written by Jennifer Anne Boittin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Black people categories.
V Nus Noire
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Author : Robin Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2020-02-15
V Nus Noire written by Robin Mitchell and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-15 with History categories.
Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus. In Vénus Noire, Robin Mitchell shows how these literary and visual depictions of black women helped to shape the country’s postrevolutionary national identity, particularly in response to the trauma of the French defeat in the Haitian Revolution. Vénus Noire explores the ramifications of this defeat in examining visual and literary representations of three black women who achieved fame in the years that followed. Sarah Baartmann, popularly known as the Hottentot Venus, represented distorted memories of Haiti in the French imagination, and Mitchell shows how her display, treatment, and representation embodied residual anger harbored by the French. Ourika, a young Senegalese girl brought to live in France by the Maréchal Prince de Beauvau, inspired plays, poems, and clothing and jewelry fads, and Mitchell examines how the French appropriated black female identity through these representations while at the same time perpetuating stereotypes of the hypersexual black woman. Finally, Mitchell shows how demonization of Jeanne Duval, longtime lover of the poet Charles Baudelaire, expressed France’s need to rid itself of black bodies even as images and discourses about these bodies proliferated. The stories of these women, carefully contextualized by Mitchell and put into dialogue with one another, reveal a blind spot about race in French national identity that persists in the postcolonial present.
Colonial Memory And Postcolonial Europe
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Author : Andrea L. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2006-08-21
Colonial Memory And Postcolonial Europe written by Andrea L. Smith and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-21 with History categories.
"[I]ntersects with very active areas of research in history and anthropology, and links these domains of inquiry spanning Europe and North Africa in a creative and innovative fashion." —Douglas Holmes, Binghamton University Maltese settlers in colonial Algeria had never lived in France, but as French citizens were abruptly "repatriated" there after Algerian independence in 1962. In France today, these pieds-noirs are often associated with "Mediterranean" qualities, the persisting tensions surrounding the French-Algerian War, and far-right, anti-immigrant politics. Through their social clubs, they have forged an identity in which Malta, not Algeria, is the unifying ancestral homeland. Andrea L. Smith uses history and ethnography to argue that scholars have failed to account for the effect of colonialism on Europe itself. She explores nostalgia and collective memory; the settlers' liminal position in the colony as subalterns and colonists; and selective forgetting, in which Malta replaces Algeria, the "true" homeland, which is now inaccessible, fraught with guilt and contradiction. The study provides insight into race, ethnicity, and nationalism in Europe as well as cultural context for understanding political trends in contemporary France.
A Dark Jungle
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Author : Elizabeth Marly Floyd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
A Dark Jungle written by Elizabeth Marly Floyd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Alienation (Social psychology) in literature categories.
Noir
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Author : Matthew W. Jarvis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Noir written by Matthew W. Jarvis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Blacks in art categories.
Anne Louis Girodet showed his portrait of Belley at the Salon of 1798 during the height of the Directory government. Belley represented a history of where France had been and where it was at the time. When we look upon Girodet's painting we are compelled to reflect upon the sacrifices of three revolutions as well as the slave trade itself. Girodet absorbs and re-articulates an entire epistemology of the black figure in anglo as well as French painting. Belley accounts for a great deal of aesthetic shifts in fashion as well English effects on French artistic practices. Girodet presents not only a challenge to history painting but academic practices with regards to the body. What we see in Belley is a new France where a black man, former slave, can rise to be a French aristocrat. At the same time that Belley was being painted a young military officer from Corsica was starting to make a name for himself in France. Napoleon Bonaparte would have a meteoric rise to height that no one in the modern world has since surpassed. Ever present in his mind and manner, though, were his roots on the tiny island possession that had been conquered by France just before his birth. Through painting and controlled artistic propaganda we see Napoleon emerge as a figure who articulates the northern and southern extremes of his empire in addition to the historical lineage he attempts to lay claim to. Ingres' 1806 of Napoleon Enthroned, later to be re-imagined by Andrea Appiani, is the concluding presentation of a body that has left the Mediterranean world and scaled the heights of Valhalla as well as absorbed the presentation of the ancient caesars. Like Belley, Napoleon is born into colonialism. Both men, however, break their chains. Each is ascendent and in representation shows a worldliness that few at the time possessed. Belley was capable of moving beyond the Atlantic and the West Indies to become a cosmopolitain man. So too was Napoleon a man of the world, however, in his case, it was a world which he controlled.