Kinohi Nishikawa is Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of Street Players: Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary Underground (2018), as well as a number of essays on African American print and popular culture. Nishikawa’s previous writing on comics has appeared in the Eisner Award-winning collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art (2015).
Kinohi Nishikawa
Contributions
Harlem Composition: Adapting Chester Himes into French Comics
Melvin Van Peebles remembers that it was 1963 or 1964 when his boss at the weekly news magazine France-Observateur assigned him to do a story on someone “who had just won some big French crime writing prize.” That someone happened to be another Black American writer living in Paris, Chester Himes—although he had won the Grand prix de littérature policière in 1958, not recently. The award honored For Love of Imabelle (1957),
