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Accra noir
- Title
- Accra noir / edited by Nana-Ama Danquah.
- Publication
- Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2020]
- ©2020
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Danquah, Nana-Ama
- Description
- 269 pages : illustrations, maps; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "Accra is the perfect setting for noir fiction. The telling of such tales--ones involving or suggesting death, with a protagonist who is flawed or devious, driven by either a self-serving motive or one of the seven deadly sins--is woven into the fabric of the city's everyday life... Accra is more than just a capital city. It is a microcosm of Ghana. It is a virtual map of the nation's soul, a complex geographical display of its indigenous presence, the colonial imposition, declarations of freedom, followed by coups d'état, decades of dictatorship, and then, finally, a steady march forward into a promising future... Much like Accra, these stories are not always what they seem. The contributors who penned them know too well how to spin a story into a web...It is an honor and a pleasure to share them and all they reveal about Accra, a city of allegories, one of the most dynamic and diverse places in the world."--From the introduction.
- Series Statement
- Akashic noir series
- Uniform Title
- Akashic noir series.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Fiction.
- Noir fiction.
- Short stories.
- Ghanaian fiction (English)
- African fiction (English) – Black authors.
- American fiction – Black authors.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Part I: One day for master. Chop money / Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond -- Shape-shifters / Adjoa Twum -- Moon over Aburi / Kwame Dawes -- Fantasia in fans and flat screens / Kofi Blankson Ocansey -- Part II: Heaven gate, no bribe. The Labadi Sunshine Bar / Billie McTernan -- The driver / Ernest Kwame Nkrumah Addo -- The situation / Patrick Smith -- Part III: All die be die. Intentional consequences / Anne Sackey -- Tabilo Wucfc / Gbontwi Anyetei -- When a man loves a woman / Nana-Ama Danquah -- Part IV: Sea never dry. Kweku's house / Ayesha Harruna Attah -- The boy who wasn't there / Eibhlín Ní Chléirigh -- Instant justice / Anna Bossman.
- Call Number
- Sc D 21-687
- ISBN
- 9781617758898
- 1617758892
- LCCN
- 2020935791
- OCLC
- 1224505865
- Title
- Accra noir / edited by Nana-Ama Danquah.
- Publisher
- Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2020]
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Akashic noir seriesAkashic noir series.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Danquah, Nana-Ama, editor, author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 21-687