The Noir Atlantic is a captivating book in which Pim Higginson carves out new terrain through absorbing readings of the under-explored corpus of francophone African crime writing. Readers will be stimulated by the numerous insights provided into the multi-directional nature of cultural and political networks that have historically shaped relations between Africa, Europe, and the United States, and appreciate the ... Read morefar-reaching implications for diaspora, francophone, and postcolonial studies. Dominic Thomas
Dominic Thomas It will be useful not only to scholars of African literature in French but also to readers of Chester Himes’s novels and crime fiction in general. In short, this book makes interesting and important connections between Francophone African and African American literature. It is also, like the crime fiction it discusses, a very good read. Nicki Hitchcott Show Less