Love and Suspense in Paris Noir : Navigating the Seamy World of Jake Lamar's Rendezvous EighteenthMain MenuMeet Jake LamarMeet Jake Lamar, his Paris, and his novel Rendezvous Eighteenth.Your GuideThe guide or the narrator in Rendezvous Eighteenth.Left and Right BanksHow Rendezvous Eighteenth departs from African-American expatriate tradition in Paris.Routes in the EighteenthExplore some places in Rendezvous Eighteenth that aren't well known in expatriate fiction.Routes of Love and Paris NoirConclusion of Dr. Thompson's analysis of Rendezvous Eighteenth.MerciAcknowledgments to everyone that contributed to this interactive literary analysis.About this BookCitation and Copyright InformationTyechia Thompson51961cf661a6fd012f289d19ce56a839e787d137Published by Publishing Without Walls, Urbana, Ill., part of the Illinois Open Publishing Network.
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1media/r18.png2018-12-07T15:11:55+00:00Left and Right Banks97How Rendezvous Eighteenth departs from African-American expatriate tradition in Paris.plain2019-06-27T15:42:52+00:00 While Lamar’s essay “French Impressionism” in the collection Black France/France Noire highlights the benefits of a perceived racial impartiality in Paris from an African-American man’s perspective, Lamar’s first novel set in Paris (and fourth novel in general), Rendezvous Eighteenth, highlights the visibility of African-descended people in Paris and also portrays the partiality given to African-Americans in Paris. The title Rendezvous Eighteenth captures Lamar’s focus on the Eighteenth Arrondissement (one of the twenty subsections of Paris). This subsection of Paris is located in the northernmost part of the city, which has a large North and Sub-Saharan African population. The Eighteenth has areas frequented by tourists, particularly Montmartre, where the Sacré Cœur is located, but some other areas of the Eighteenth are not as well known, especially in 2003, when the novel was first published.
Lamar highlights the well-known and less-traveled areas of the Eighteenth in this novel. In a 2009 interview, Lamar remarked, "I felt that American writers and American writers that are my friends don’t know the Paris I know, and they write about a Paris that is much more a part of this part of town [Sixth Arrondissement]. And I really wanted to show a different side of Paris. And that was very much on my mind in Rendezvous Eighteenth”(Lamar, “Café”). Lamar shows this “different side of Paris” through his third-person narrator’s descriptions of the city, the visibility of people of African descent, and the experiences of his protagonist, Ricky Jenks.