Mostly French
Subtitle: French (in) detective fiction
By: Alistair Rolls [editor].
Contributors: Rolls, Alistair, 1971-
Series: Modern French identities -- 88
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783039119578
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, French -- History and criticism; Detective and mystery stories, Australian -- History and criticism; French Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Australian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; National characteristics, French, in literature; Literature, Comparative -- French and Australian; Literature, Comparative -- Australian and French
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Mapping the territory : French and Australian detective fiction. An uncertain space : (dis-)locating the Frenchness of French and Australian detective fiction / Alistair Rolls; title: Crime fiction's cultural field : Carter Brown in France / Toni Johnson-Woods; title: Unmapping or deterritorializing : Frenchness in Australian detective fiction; title: Murder in Montparnasse and Kerry Greenwood's French connection / Sue Ryan-Fazilleau; title: Re-assessing Arthur W. Upfield's Napoleon Bonaparte detective fiction / John Ramsland and Marie Ramsland; title: Changing territories : translation and reterritorialization. Lost? and found? in translation : the Frenchification of Australian crime / John West-Sooby; title: Wakefield queens of crime go to Paris : the publishing adventures of Patricia Carlon and Charlotte Jay / Jean Fornasiero; title: 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; title: Reading and writing the primal crime scene : Fred Vargas's Dans les bois éternels / Alistair Rolls.