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Code Noir: Fictions

Code Noir: Fictions

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Author(s)/Editor(s): Lubrin, Canisia - - Sharpe, Christina

Binding: HARD COVER BOOKS
YearMonthDay of Publication: 20250204
Standardized Book Category: African American & Black - Historical
Language: English
Page Count: 00416
Large Print? : N

Publisher Marketing: "Code Noir is storytelling at its deepest and most intimate. These stories are magic and you must enter them as if you, too, are wondrous." --Dionne Brand, author of Nomenclature, Theory, and Map to the Door of No Return

Canisia Lubrin's debut fiction is that rare work of art--a brilliant, startlingly original book that combines immense literary and political force. Its structure, deceptively simple, is based on the infamous Code Noir, a set of real historical decrees originally 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, multilayered fragments filled with globe-wise characters who desire to live beyond the ruins of the past.

Accompanied by black-and-white drawings--one at the start of each fiction--by acclaimed visual artist Torkwase Dyson, and with a foreword by Christina Sharpe, Code Noir ranges in style from contemporary realism to dystopian literature, from futuristic fantasy to historical fiction. This inventive, shape-shifting braid of narratives exists far beyond the boundaries of an official decree.

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