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From the execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programs like The Wire and The Sopranos, crime writing has played an important role in American culture. Its ability to register fear, desire and anxiety has made it a popular genre with a wide audience. These new essays, written for students as well as readers of crime fiction, demonstrate the very best in contemporary scholarship and challenge long-established notions of the development of the detective novel. Each chapter covers a sub-genre, from 'true crime' to hard-boiled novels, illustrating the ways in which 'popular' and 'high' literary genres influence and shape each other. With a chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion is a helpful guide for students of American literature and readers of crime fiction.

Detective and mystery stories, American --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Roman policier américain --- Histoire et critique

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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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Fiction --- Thematology --- Film --- Detective and mystery stories --- Crime in literature. --- Detective and mystery films --- History and criticism. --- Roman policier américain --- Roman policier anglais --- Enquêtes criminelles --- Histoire et critique --- Dans la littérature

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American fiction --- Detective and mystery stories, American --- Women and literature --- Literature --- American literature --- Women authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- History --- Women authors --- ROMAN POLICIER AMERICAIN --- LITTERATURE AMERICAINE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- FEMMES ECRIVAINS

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ROMAN AMERICAIN --- ROMAN POLICIER AMERICAIN --- LITTERATURE ET SOCIETE --- SUSPENSE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- CHANGEMENT SOCIAL DANS LA LITTERATURE --- ANGOISSE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- CRIMES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- 20E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- ETATS-UNIS --- ROMAN AMERICAIN --- ROMAN POLICIER AMERICAIN --- LITTERATURE ET SOCIETE --- SUSPENSE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- CHANGEMENT SOCIAL DANS LA LITTERATURE --- ANGOISSE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- CRIMES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- 20E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- ETATS-UNIS