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in English Literature from Howard University, where she we created three digital companions to her dissertation "Mapping City Limits: Post 1960s Paris and the writings of James Baldwin, James Emanuel and Jake Lamar." Her area of expertise is African-American writers in Paris. She is a Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Associate in the Center for Humanities at Virginia Tech. Tyechia Thompson is an educator, researcher, and producer. Please cite this book using the DOI 10.21900/pww.3 This title was peer reviewed with a single-blind process by the AFRO-PWW editorial board.

Building a new layer of analysis in each path, Thompson demonstrates a flexible approach to text, showing the complexities of Rendezvous Eighteenth in both form and content. Introducing the “different side of Paris” through narrator Ricky Jenks, Lamar centers his novel on the lesser known parts of the city, enabling direct challenges to migration narratives of inclusion and racially utopic France. Unfolding in six different paths, this interactive literary analysis pulls together interviews with Jake Lamar and relevant videos, showing Lamar’s chosen setting of the Eighteenth Arrondissement and treatment of race as a departure from contemporary fiction of its type. Taking readers on an itinerant journey through Jake Lamar’s novel Rendezvous Eighteenth, Tyechia Thompson, practitioner of Black Paris, explores narratives of African-American expatriates in Lamar’s life, his Paris, and his work. There is a crucial need for this type of academic digital essays in which authors write in an easily lucid manner."

Lastly, Thompson’s digital essay reveals the multi-ethnic and geographically alert awareness. She embeds links to research that complements the author that she studies. "Thompson mines her digital essay with Amine’s purposeful intervention. “… I find this project fascinating, as it seeks to accomplish what Lamar attempts in his novel, that is, take a diverse audience on a journey not through the famed City of Light per se, but through another Paris, its underside.”