“POLAR NOIR”: READING AFRICAN-AMERICAN DETECTIVE FICTION

Alice Mills and Claude Julien (ed.)

Cahiers de recherches afro-américaines : Transversalités

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FRANÇAIS ENGLISH

Curiosity and the desire to grasp the specificity of an abundantly read African American genre born as the 20th century was beginning are the research intentions that inspire this volume. Indeed, only recently has African-American detective fiction drawn the attention of scholars in spite of its very diverse blossoming since the 1960s. Diverse, because it has moved out of its birth place, East coast cities, and because female novelists have contributed their own production.

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• Publisher : Presses universitaires François-Rabelais
 
• Series : Cahiers de recherches afro-américaines : Transversalités | 2
 
• Place of publication : Tours
 
• Year of publication : 2005
 
• Published on OpenEdition Books : 20 juin 2017
 
• EAN (Print version) : 9782869062146
 
• Electronic EAN : 9782869065130
 
• DOI : 10.4000/books.pufr.5770
 
• Number of pages : 224 p.

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• About the author

FRANÇAIS | ENGLISH

Curiosity and the desire to grasp the specificity of an abundantly read African American genre born as the 20th century was beginning are the research intentions that inspire this volume. Indeed, only recently has African-American detective fiction drawn the attention of scholars in spite of its very diverse blossoming since the 1960s. Diverse, because it has moved out of its birth place, East coast cities, and because female novelists have contributed their own production.

At the heart of this popular genre, as novelists Barbara Neely, Paula Woods and Gar Haywood tell us, is black existence: black memory, black living places and the human environments that build the individual - hence a détour to the French Caribbean.