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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.

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Names such as Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and Sam Spade are perhaps better known than the names of the authors who created them. The woman detective has also had worldwide appeal; yet, with the exception of Christie's Miss Marple, the names of female detectives and their authors have only recently gained wide attention through the popularity of Marcia Muller, Sue Grafton, and Sara Paretsky.The essays in this collection grapple with a wide range of issues important to the female sleuth - the most important, perhaps, being the oft-heard challenge to her suitability for the job. Not surprisingly, gender issues are the main focus of all the essays; indeed, in detective novels with a woman protagonist, these issues are often right at the surface.Some of the papers see the female sleuth as an important force in popular fiction, but many also challenge the notion that the woman detective is a positive model for feminists. They argue that fictional female sleuths have lost the `otherness' that a feminine approach to the genre should encourage. Collectively, the essays also reveal the differences between British and American perspectives on the woman detective.

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