Rumpus in Harlem-Sur Seine: Francophone Crime Fiction Hosting Chester Himes

Diasporic writers Daniel Picouly and Simon Njami are both influenced by Chester Himes in their novels Tête de Nègre (Picouly), L’enfant léopard (Picouly) and Cercueil et Cie (Coffin and Co.) (Njami). They constantly use intertextuality by revisiting the famous crime novels of the African American wr...

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