Code Noir : fictions / Canisia Lubrin ; with art by Torkwase Dyson ; with a foreword by Christina Sharpe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lubrin, Canisia, 1984- author.

Contributor:

Dyson, Torkwase, illustrator.

Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Fiction.

Slavery.

France--Fiction.

France.

Law--Fiction.

Law.

Colonies--Fiction.

Colonies.

Genre:

Fiction.

Linked stories.

Physical Description:

xvi, 395 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Soft Skull edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Soft Skull, 2025.

Summary:

"Canisia Lubrin's debut fiction combines immense literary and political force. Its departs from the infamous real-life Code Noir, a set of historical decrees 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-layer 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 fifty-nine black-and-white drawings - one at the start of each fiction - by acclaimed visual artist Torkwase Dyson"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781593767969

159376796X

OCLC:

1456763841