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There is a reason why Stephen King is one of the bestselling writers in the world, ever. As George Pelecanos says : "King's gift of storytelling is unrivalled. His ferocious imagination is unlimited." King knows how to write stories that draw you in and are impossible to put down. Danny is only five years old but in the words of old Mr Hallorann he is a "shiner", aglow with psychic voltage. When bis father becomes caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, Danny's visions grow out of control.As winter closes in and blizzards cut them off, the hotel seems to develop a life of its own. It is meant to be empty. So who is the lady in Room 217 and who are the masked guests going up and down in the elevator ? And why do the hedges shaped like animais seem so alive ? Somewhere, somehow, there is an exil force in the hotel - and that too is beginning to shine...

Littérature américaine --- Roman américain

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This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction. The book accounts for the return of tropes of passing in fiction by Phillip Roth, Percival Everett, Louise Erdrich, Danzy Senna, Jeffrey Eugenides and Paul Beatty, by arguing meta-critical and meta-fictional tool. These writers are attracted to the trope of passing because passing narratives have always foregrounded the notion of textuality in relation to the (il)legibility of "black" subjects passing as white. The central argument of this book, then, is that contemporary narratives of passing are concerned with articulating and unpacking an analogy between passing and authorship. The title promises to inaugurate dialogue on the relationships between passing, postmodernism and authorship in contemporary American fiction.

Roman américain --- Acculturation --- Métissage --- Identité sexuelle --- American fiction --- Passing (Identity) in literature --- Dans la littérature --- History and criticism --- Roman américain --- Métissage --- Identité sexuelle --- Dans la littérature

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One cannot fail to be impressed by the number of works of fiction relating to slavery and the slave trade, writing back to the original slave narratives of the 18th and 19th centuries. If the African-American authors of the 1960s and 1970s are now well-known, they find an echo in works written more recently in the 1980s and 1990s by American, African, African-American and Caribbean writers. About twenty writers come under the scrutiny of renowned scholars, offering perspectives into what makes it so necessary today for writers, critics and readers alike to revisit, reassess and reappropriate the canonical texts of slavery and post-slavery literature. The specificity of this collection is to focus on neo-slave novels while bringing together African-American and Caribbean authors. On ne peut qu’être impressionné par le nombre d’œuvres littéraires de fiction qui se rapportent à l’esclavage et au commerce des esclaves, répondant ainsi aux premiers récits d’esclaves publiés aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles. Si les auteurs africains-américains des années soixante et soixante-dix sont maintenant bien connus, toute une nouvelle vague d’écrivains Américains, Africains, Africains-Américains et Caribbéens, poursuivent et renouvèlent, depuis les années quatre-vingt et quatre vingt-dix, cette tradition. Rassemblés autour de l’œuvre d’une vingtaine d’écrivains, des universitaires de renom ouvrent, dans ce recueil, des perspectives nouvelles pour comprendre la nécessité qui poussent écrivains, critiques et lecteurs à relire, réécrire et revisiter cette littérature de l’esclavage encore aujourd’hui.

Comparative literature --- Fiction --- Thematology --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Slave trade in literature --- Slavery in literature --- Caribbean literature --- American literature --- African literature (English) --- Criticism and interpretation --- History and criticism --- Caribbean literature - Criticism and interpretation --- American literature - 20th century - History and criticism --- African literature (English) - History and criticism --- Literature --- postcolonial --- récit d’esclave --- littérature Caraïbe --- littérature Africaine-Américaine --- slave narrative --- African-American literature --- ESCLAVES --- ESCLAVAGE ET ESCLAVES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- LITTERATURE AMERICAINE --- Littérature antillaise de langue anglaise --- ROMAN ANTILLAIS DE LANGUE ANGLAISE --- ROMAN AMERICAIN --- NOIRS DANS LA LITTERATURE --- NOIRS AMERICAINS DANS LA LITTERATURE --- AUTOBIOGRAPHIE (GENRE LITTERAIRE) --- CARAÏBES --- ETATS-UNIS --- AUTEURS NOIRS --- Histoire et critique --- AUTEURS NOIRS AMERICAINS --- CARAIBES