Table des matières
I. Variations on a genre
Stephen Soitos
African-American Detective Fiction: Surveying the GenreYves Bonnemère
Ishmael Reed’s Use of Detective Novel PrototypesFrançoise Clary
Dismantling the Detective Story: Chester Himes’s Ideological Stand in A Case of RapeII. Space in the detective novel
Norlisha F. Crawford
The South as Literary Space in African-American Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction: Challenging Images that Persist and Matter in U.S. CultureAnne-Marie Paquet-Deyris
“Boys and Girls in the Neighborhood”: A Rage in Harlem —Chester Himes, 1957 / Bill Duke, 1991Claude Julien
Gunner Country: Gar Anthony Haywood’s Fictional WorldIII. Women writers — women's sleuths
John C. Gruesser
Valerie Wesley’s Tamara Hayle and Newark’s Past, Present, and FutureIV. The color of crime
Daniel Peltzman
Of Race and the Witch Hunt in Walter Mosley’s A Red DeathGérard Delechelle
“It’s always a little piece of language that sets off a novel”: A Linguistic Analysis of the Opening Chapter of Walter Mosley’s White ButterflyV. African-American detective fiction writers speak
John Gruesser
An Interview with Valerie Wilson Wesley