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Love and Suspense in Paris Noir: Navigating the Seamy World of Jake Lamar’s Rendezvous Eighteenth
by Tyechia Thompson
Published by Publishing Without Walls (PWW), Urbana, Ill., part of the Illinois Open Publishing Network. Published as part of the AFRO Publishing Without Walls (AFRO-PWW) series. PWW is a collaborative project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, that involves the University Library, the School of Information Sciences, the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, and the Department of African American Studies.ISBN 9781946011060.
Please cite this book using the DOI 10.21900/pww.3.
Synopsis
Taking readers on an itinerant journey through Jake Lamar’s novel Rendezvous Eighteenth, Tyechia Thompson, practitioner of Black Paris, explores narratives of African-American expatriates in Lamar’s life, his Paris, and his work. Unfolding in six different paths, this interactive literary analysis pulls together interviews with Jake Lamar and relevant videos, showing Lamar’s chosen setting of the Eighteenth Arrondissement and treatment of race as a departure from contemporary fiction of its type. Introducing the “different side of Paris” through narrator Ricky Jenks, Lamar centers his novel on the lesser known parts of the city, enabling direct challenges to migration narratives of inclusion and racially utopic France. Building a new layer of analysis in each path, Thompson demonstrates a flexible approach to text, showing the complexities of Rendezvous Eighteenth in both form and content.Technical Note
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Love and Suspense in Paris Noir: Navigating the Seamy World of Jake Lamar’s Rendezvous Eighteenth copyright © 2019 by Tyechia Thompson.
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The images used as the cover in this book and the Love and Suspense Credits image on the page titled "Finis" were designed by Tiffany Nguyen.
