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Un des traits de la contemporanéité littéraire américaine est bien la liberté prise avec les genres canoniques, dont les cloisons de plus en plus poreuses permettent des accouplements monstrueux porteurs de formes nouvelles. Cependant, en quoi cette post-modernité, ou cette post-post modernité, diffère-t-elle de la modernité ? Il ne me semble pas qu'il existe de réponse conséquente, sinon à retomber sur des lieux communs où l'on retrouvera tout ce qui touche à l'éclatement des formes établies. Il semblerait que la seule question stimulante exige la reconnaissance des variations individuelles auxquelles se livre chacun des auteurs concernés.

Women's Studies --- Literature (General) --- roman --- littérature --- littérature de langue anglaise --- roman américain --- écrivaine --- femmes noires

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La curiosité et le désir de cerner les spécificités d'un genre que les Afro-Américains se sont approprié à l'aube du 20e siècle, telles sont les intentions de recherche animant le présent volume. Beaucoup lu par tous les publics (Chester Himes connut d'abord le succès en France), le polar afro-américain reste relativement peu étudié en dépit d'une production très abondante et diverse depuis les années soixante. Diverse parce qu'elle a essaimé hors de la côte Est, et parce que les romancières sont venues l'enrichir. Le vécu racial, comme nous le disent BarbaraNeely, Paula Woods et Gar Haywood est au cœur de ce genre populaire : la mémoire noire, les lieux noirs et les environnements humains qui construisent l'être - d'où une incursion en Caraïbe francophone. 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 BarbaraNeely, 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.

Literature (General) --- roman --- roman américain --- roman policier américain --- auteur --- auteur noir américain --- author --- African American author --- novel --- American author --- American thriller

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"The Nadir and the Zenith is a study of temperance and melodramatic excess in African American fiction before the Harlem Renaissance. Anna Pochmara combines formal analysis with attention to the historical context, which, apart from US postbellum race relations, includes also white and black temperance movements and their discourses. Despite the proliferation of black literature in this period, and its popularity at the time, African American fiction between Reconstruction and World War I has not attracted nearly as much scholarly attention as the Harlem Renaissance. Pochmara provocatively aims to suggest that the historical moment when black people's "status in American society" reached its lowest point-the so-called "Nadir"--Coincides with the zenith of black novelistic productivity before World War II. Pochmara's examination explores authors such as Charles W. Chesnutt, Julia C. Collins, W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sutton Griggs, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, Lillian B. Jones Horace, James Weldon Johnson, Amelia E. Johnson, Edward A. Johnson, J. McHenry Jones, and Katherine D. Tillman. Altogether, they published no fewer than 33 novels between 1865 and 1918, surpassing the creativity of New Negro prose writers and the number of novels they published during the 1920s"--

Noirs americains --- Temperance dans la litterature. --- Roman americain --- Roman americain --- African Americans --- Characters and characteristics in literature. --- Temperance in literature. --- American fiction --- American fiction --- Vie intellectuelle --- Histoire et critique. --- Auteurs noirs americains --- Histoire et critique. --- Intellectual life --- History and criticism. --- African American authors --- History and criticism.

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This study examines the work of a wide range of American women writers at the turn of the 20th century, and looks at issues of race and gender in a firm historical context.

Biography: 1800-1999 --- American literature: authors --- American fiction --- Women and literature --- American literature --- Women authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- History --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Roman américain --- Femmes et littérature --- 19e siècle --- Histoire et critique --- 20e siècle --- États-Unis

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American fiction --- Street literature --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- 2000-2099 --- United States. --- USA --- Littérature populaire. --- Roman américain --- Littérature de colportage --- Emprisonnement --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Critique et interprétation. --- Dans la littérature.