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Gatekeepers of Noir: The Paradoxical Internationalization of the French Crime Fiction Field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 July 2020

Jacques Migozzi ,
Natacha Levet  and
Lucie Amir
Jacques Migozzi
Affiliation:
Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, 39E rue Camille Guérin, 87000Limoges, France. Email: jacques.migozzi@unilim.fr
Natacha Levet
Affiliation:
Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, 39E rue Camille Guérin, 87000Limoges, France. Email: jacques.migozzi@unilim.fr
Lucie Amir
Affiliation:
Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, 39E rue Camille Guérin, 87000Limoges, France. Email: jacques.migozzi@unilim.fr
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Abstract

The French noir tradition is supposed to dominate the French market of crime fiction, regardless of the growing success of French and non-French thrillers in France. Yet in the last two decades, the French literary crime fiction market has been marked by the arrival of non-French European authors. By combining a quantitative and qualitative approach to publishing series, translations, prizes and festivals, this article highlights the transnational dimension of the French market independently from a spontaneous methodological nationalism encouraged by the reception discourses.

Type
Focus: Crime Fiction as a Mirror of Europe’s Changing Identities
Information
European Review , Volume 29 , Issue 5 , October 2021 , pp. 618 - 634
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© 2020 Academia Europaea

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