“A Man Among Men” in Algerian Paris: Modeling Motivation and Movement in Jake Lamar’s Rendezvous Eighteenth Main Menu Rendezvous Eighteenth Header Splash Page Jake Lamar and Rendezvous Eighteenth An introduction to Jake Lamar French Impressionism and Rendezvous Eighteenth Morrison: Point of View Theoretical Framework Amine: Algerian Paris Keaton: Black American Paris Routes of Narration: Detective Fiction Routes of Narration: romance “A Man Among Men” in the Eighteenth "A Man Among Men": Valitsa "A Man Among Men": Fatima “Algerian Paris” Revisited "Algerian Paris" Revisited": Barbes "Algerian Paris" Revisited: Mairie of the Eighteenth "Algerian Paris" Revisited: La Goutte d'Or PDF

Thesis

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In this chapter, I explore the third person narrator's description of three neighborhoods in Rendezvous Eighteenth, which show Jake Lamar's emphasis on second generation French people of African descent. I frame my analysis with Toni Morrison's description of her use of the third person point of view and Zora Neale Hurston's expression of "going a piece of the way with them" to explain that Lamar's third person narrator functions as a guide in the novel. I then discuss my use of Google Maps as a guide to "Street View" Rendezvous Eighteenth, and I explain my use of Scalar as a multimodal guide to critique Rendezvous Eighteenth. I then analyze the three descriptions of Montmartre, la Goutte d'Or, and Barbes revealing that the guide depicts the familiar and unfamiliar/distinct in these areas, and I also compare Google's Street View images to Lamar's descriptions.

In my analysis of the familiar and distinct, I show that in Montmartre the narrator flashbacks to the familiar artists' community that is much like Langston Hughes depicts in ​The Big Sea. However, in the twenty-first century, Montmartre is distinctive through being overrun with the English language and mediocre artist. In la Goutte d'Or, the narrator describes North Africans in the Street in likeness to William Gardner Smith's The Stone Face and shows distinction by describing the the neighborhood as having a look of war-torn desolation (--). In Barbes, the narrator portrays the familiar border of Pigalle and then highlights the distinctive, "bustling" community that he reveals as "the third world" in Paris (--). Through an analysis of these depictions, I show that Lamar’s detailed mapping of the eighteenth emphasizes the flows of immigrants into Paris and depicts a city altered by the large population of first and second generation citizens of France. 
 

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  1. Guidebook: Toni Morrison