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Mostly French : French (in) detective fiction / Alistair Rolls [editor].

Title
Mostly French : French (in) detective fiction / Alistair Rolls [editor].
Publication
New York : Peter Lang, 2009.

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Additional Authors
Rolls, Alistair, 1971-
Description
vi, 204 p.; 23 cm..
Series Statement
Modern French identities ; 88
Uniform Title
Modern French identities ; v. 88.
Subject
  • Detective and mystery stories, Australian > History and criticism
  • Detective and mystery stories, French > History and criticism
  • French Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Australian fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
  • National characteristics, French, in literature
  • Comparative literature > French and Australian
  • Comparative literature > Australian and French
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Mapping the territory : French and Australian detective fiction. An uncertain space : (dis-)locating the Frenchness of French and Australian detective fiction / Alistair Rolls -- Crime fiction's cultural field : Carter Brown in France / Toni Johnson-Woods -- Unmapping or deterritorializing : Frenchness in Australian detective fiction -- Murder in Montparnasse and Kerry Greenwood's French connection / Sue Ryan-Fazilleau -- Re-assessing Arthur W. Upfield's Napoleon Bonaparte detective fiction / John Ramsland and Marie Ramsland -- Changing territories : translation and reterritorialization. Lost? and found? in translation : the Frenchification of Australian crime / John West-Sooby -- Wakefield queens of crime go to Paris : the publishing adventures of Patricia Carlon and Charlotte Jay / Jean Fornasiero -- Remapping the territory : seeing French woods through the trees. "In the noir"? : the blind detective in Brigitte Aubert's La mort des bois / Françoise Grauby -- Reading and writing the primal crime scene : Fred Vargas's Dans les bois éternels / Alistair Rolls.
ISBN
  • 3039119575 (alk. paper)
  • 9783039119578 (alk. paper)
OCLC
535240472
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library