Maryse Condé’s Heremakhonon As a Noir Novel
A noir genre analysis of Heremakhonon explains the confusion, sensuality, red herrings, and flashbacks that permeate the novel, as well as the primacy of an investigation to the plot. Upon arriving in a newly independent West African country, protagonist Veronica witnesses the arrest of a political activist who opposed the ruling elite. When she investigates his disappearance, Veronica realizes that she is complicit with the elite perpetrators.
The Noir Atlantic: Chester Himes and the Birth of the Francophone African Crime Novel
Acknowledgements Introduction: The Frivolous Literary 1. "Pas de litterature": Abasse Ndione and the Rise of Crime 2. Minor Mistranslations: Simon Njami and the Making of a Parisianist Himes 3. Crime Pays: Achille Ngoye and the Serie noire 4. Ethnographic Erotics: Bolya and the Writing of the Other 5. Terreur Rose: Kouty, memoire de sang and the Gendering of Noir 6. Going out Blazing: Mongo Beti's Last Two Novels Bibliography Index
Psychoanalysis and Cinema
These fifteen carefully chosen essays by well-known scholars demonstrate the vitality and variety of psychoanalytic film criticism, as well as the crucial role feminist theory has played in its development. Among the films discussed are Duel in the Sun, The Best Years of Our Lives, Three Faces of Eve, Tender is the Night, Pandora's Box, Secrets of the Soul, and the works of Jacques Tourneur (director of The Cat People and other features).