New Approaches to Crime in French Literature, Culture and Film
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- ISBN 9783039118502
- Weight: 350g
- Dimensions: 150 x 225mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jul 2009
- Publisher: Verlag Peter Lang
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Paperback
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The notion of crime crosses generic, disciplinary and cultural frontiers. In an era of identity fraud, eco-crime and global terrorism, this collection moves towards a reconsideration of crime in the French and Francophone literary and cultural imagination. How have our conceptions of ‘criminal’ behaviour developed? How has the French genre of crime fiction, encompassing, but not limited to, the polar, the roman policier and film noir, evolved and reinvented itself? The volume adopts a number of theoretical approaches, which range from sociological and criminological discourse to literary criticism and postcolonial theory (by Chamoiseau, Durkheim, Deleuze, Foucault, Glissant, Krafft-Ebing and Todorov). In a wide-ranging series of innovative and challenging readings, it examines ideas which include the evolving concept of crime in literature from Voltaire and censorship through to scientific constructions of criminality in the nineteenth century and in the postcolonial era, both within and outside metropolitan France. The volume also explores ‘textual crimes’ in contemporary Martinican women’s writing, crime as a genre in André Héléna, Serge Arcouët and Jean Meckert, Sébastien Japrisot and Dominique Manotti, and visual responses to crime by artist Jacques Monory and filmmaker Didier Bivel.
The Editor: Louise Hardwick is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Homerton College, Cambridge, and a graduate of Trinity College, Oxford, where she gained her doctorate analysing the récit d’enfance in Francophone Caribbean literature. Her publications include articles in French and English on Maryse Condé, Raphaël Confiant and Joseph Zobel.
