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How Does Crime Fiction ‘talk politics’?

Lucie Amir

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What can crime stories tell us about the imaginary of political commitment? In France as in other European countries, the connections between writers and radical left activists were a strong feature of 1980s and 1990s crime fiction, in the wake of French néo-polar . In contrast, twenty-first-century thrillers seem to be inhabited by disillusioned and disoriented cops, and undecided or fatal commitments. Rather than exploring political issues emerging from crime fiction, this chapter focuses on the representation of political attitudes themselves in contemporary French Noir, to better understand the role played by uncertainty and disarray in European political sensibilities. The analysis is based on a large corpus of French crime fiction, from the early 1970s néo-polar by Jean-Patrick Manchette, to the novels of Caryl Férey, Dominique Manotti, Frédéric Paulin and Olivier Norek.
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hal-04134167 , version 1 (20-06-2023)

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Lucie Amir. How Does Crime Fiction ‘talk politics’?: Figures of Political Action in Contemporary French Crime Writing. Contemporary European Crime Fiction, Springer International Publishing, pp.187-208, 2023, Crime Files, ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-21979-5_11⟩. ⟨hal-04134167⟩
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