Code noir : metamorphoses / Canisia Lubrin.
Material type: TextPublication details: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2024.Description: 346 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780735282216 (hardcover)
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Fiction | West Grey Durham Branch Shelves | Fiction | FIC LUB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 11/05/2024 | 33321003246486 |
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Part one: Now -- Part two: And then -- Part three: And elsewhere.
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 is deceptively simple: it departs from the infamous real-life "Code Noir," a set of 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, multi-layered fragments filled with globe-wise characters who desire to live beyond the ruins of the past. Ranging in style from contemporary realism to dystopia, from futuristic fantasy to historical fiction, this inventive, shape-shifting braid of stories exists far beyond the enclosures of official decrees. This is a timely, daring, virtuosic book by a young literary star. The stories are accompanied by black-and-white drawings--one at the start of each fiction--by acclaimed visual artist Torkwase Dyson.
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