En 2002, la Bibliothèque publique d'information (Bpi) au Centre Pompidou et la
Direction du livre et de la lecture (DLL) du Ministère de la Culture et de la
Communication commandaient une étude sur le roman policier. Le résultat fut Lire
le noir : Enquête sur les lecteurs de récits policiers d'Annie Collovald et Erik
Neveu (Bibliothèque Centre Pompidou, 2004.) Dans cet ouvrage, les auteurs
analysent l'intérêt croissant des intellectuels pour ce genre.
Intérêt qui sera confirmé pendant trois journées d'étude, du 12 au 15 mai 2003,
au cours desquelles la Faculté des Lettres de l'Institut Catholique de Paris (21
rue d'Assas 75006 Paris) a convié des universitaires du monde entier ainsi que
plusieurs écrivains à venir partager leur plaisir de lecture et leur réflexion
sur les qualités intrinsèques du polar. Ce colloque se veut pluridisciplinaire
et tentera d'aborder les divers aspects du genre (roman policier et science,
multiculturalisme, histoire, géographie, intertextualité, cinéma, théâtre,
groupes minoritaires, philosophie, religion, psychanalyse, postcolonialisme…)
Avec la présence des écrivains John Harvey, Jake Lamar, Jean-Hugues Oppel et
Colin Thibert.
Contact Anita Higgie higgie@noos.fr (Maître de Conférences ICP, directrice du
département de langues) et Delphine Cingal dcingal@club-internet.fr (Maître de
Conférences Panthéon ? Assas - Paris 2, enseignant à l'ICP)
Institut Catholique de Paris
21 rue d'Assas
75006 Paris
Colloque International
International Conference
May 12, 13, 14 2005/mai 12, 13, 14 2005
"The Detective Novel: themes and perspectives”
"Le Roman policier: thèmes et perspectives".
PROGRAMME
Thursday May 12th/jeudi 12 mai
Le Grand Amphi (B18)
9h-9h30 ? Opening of the conference by Professor Joseph Maïla, Rector of the
University, and Professor Nathalie Nabert, Dean of the Faculty of Letters.
9h-9h30 ? Ouverture du colloque par le professeur Joseph Maïla, Recteur de
l'Institut, et par le professeur Nathalie Nabert, Doyen de la Faculté des
Lettres
May 12th 9h30, Grande Amphi (B 18)
Detective fiction and science (Panel I)/ Roman policier et science (Atelier I)
Chair / Présidence : Neil Davie
Daniel Vyleta (European College of Liberal Arts ? Berlin/Fitzwilliam College,
Cambridge):Detective novels and the Science of Criminality
Lee Rumbarger (University of Texas at Austin) : Blood on the Dining Room Floor:
Violence at Home in Gertrude Stein's Detective Novel
Delphine Cingal (Université Panthéon-Assas-Paris 2) :Bodies in John Harvey's
Novels
May 12th 9h30, Room/salle B02
Detective fiction, history and concepts of time (Panel D)/ Roman policier,
histoire et concepts temporels (Atelier D)
Chair / Présidence : Andrew Mangham
Sophie Cartier (Université Paris 7): La representation du temps et de l'espace
dans l'oeuvre de Peter Ackroyd: le roman policier comme modèle de l'écriture du
passé
Pablo Ramirez (University of Guelph ? Ontario, Canada) : Exhuming the Past :
Lucha Corpi's Chicano Movement Mysteries
Kathryn Mills (University of the South ? Tennessee): “La Beauté Particulière du
Mal”: the two faces of crime fiction in the nineteenth-century
Cynthia S. Hamilton (Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford and
Manchester Metropolitan University ? England): The Hardboiled Formula,
Historical Consciousness, and the Politics of Marginality: Sara Paretsky and
Paula L. Woods
May 12th 9h30, Room/salle B 01
Detective fiction and genre, text and intertexuality (Panel G 1)/ Roman policier
et genre, texte et intertextualité (Atelier G1)
Chair / Présidence : David Fraser
Natacha Levet (IUFM du Limousin): Le roman noir en France: hybridité et
dissemination génériques
Benoit Tadié (Université Paris III ? Sorbonne Nouvelle) : When the Gangs Came to
London: Hardboiled Writing and Ideological Fantasies in England Between the Wars
Maria Vara (Aristotle University ? Greece) : Narrative Games with the
Architectonics of the Classical Detective Novel in Diane Johnson's The Shadow
Knows (1974)
Christopher Pittard (University of Exeter ? England) : Detective fiction, genre
and purity
Lunch/Pause déjeuner
May 12th 14h, Grand Amphi (B 18)
Detective fiction and cinema/theatre (Panel H)/ Roman policier et cinéma/
théâtre (Atelier H)
Chair / Présidence: Delphine Cingal
Françoise Sammarcelli (Université Paris IV ? Sorbonne): La réflexivité et ses
pièges dans The Sleuth (Mankiewicz)
Beatrix Hesse (Otto Friedrich University Bamberg ? Germany) : Murder from Stage
to Page
Ilana Shiloh (The College of Management ? Israel): Metaphors of Paradox in
Detective Fiction and Film
Gilles Menegaldo (Université de Poitiers) : The Postman Always Rings Twice
(James Cain) and its Filmic Avatars: Transformation and Reception
Debate/débat : French detective fiction (In French, with translators present)
With : Jean-Hugues Oppel et Colin Thibert (moderator: Anita Higgie)
Le roman policier français: Colin Thibert et Jean-Hugues Oppel (débat animé par
Anita Higgie)
Film session / séance de cinéma The Postman Always Rings Twice
May 13th 9h, Room/salle B 02
Detective fiction and cultural studies (Panel F 1)/ Roman policier et
multiculturalisme (Atelier F1)
Chair / Présidence: Mary Rawlinson
Sébastien Rutés (Université Nancy II): Sherlock Holmes à Mexico: analyse de
l'intertexte holmesien dans Desvanecidos difuntos, de Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Kentaro Okuba (Writer/écrivain; graduate in penal law/diplomé en droit penal):
Koji Suzuki et Kitano Takeshi, deux approches de la violence japonaise
Marc Michaud (Université catholique d'Angers) : La structure mythologique des
romans de Tony Hillerman
Cristina Perissinotto (University of Ottowa ? Canada) : Of Alligators and
Economic Miracles : The Detective Novel as Social Commentary in Massimo
Carlotto's Fiction
Wendy Knepper (New York University): The Latina Detective: Investigating
Hispanic/Latino Identity in America
May 13th 9h, Room/salle B 18
Detective fiction, gender studies and minority groups (Panel B 1)/ Roman
policier, études féministes et groupes minoritaires (Atelier B1)
Chair / Présidence: Emily Barker
Shuchin Lin (Tunghai University ? Taiwan) : Femmes, But Not So Fatale:
The Changing Female Portrait in the Hard-Boiled Tradition
Sharon Wheeler (University of Gloucestershire ? England): No Justice: The Crime
Novels of John Morgan Wilson
Aimable Twagilimana (State University of New York, College at Buffalo): The
Detective Fiction of Ishmael Reed
Faye Stewart (Indiana University ? Bloomington): Reading Codes of Crime and
Sexuality in Contemporary German Lesbian Crime Novels.
A.B. Christa Schwarz (Freie Universität ? Berlin): Pan-African Murder Mysteries
of the Harlem Renaissance
May 13th 9h, Room/salle B 01
Detective fiction and genre, text and intertexuality (Panel G 2)/ Roman policier
et genre, texte et intertextualité (Atelier G2)
Chair / Présidence: Pamela Monaco
Gregory and Bruce Esplin (Utah State University): Uncanny Identities in Abe
Kobo's The Ruined Map
Paul Grimstad (New York University): “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”: Genre and
the Unreadable
Kate Macdonald (Editor of the John Buchan Journal): John Buchan's Detective
Fiction: Speed, Topography and the Sheet of Glass
Eyal Segal (Tel Aviv University): Open Endings in Detective Fiction: The Cases
of Himes and Berkeley
Jesse Coleman (New York University): Interrogating Authority: Conrad, Greene,
and the Modernist Detective Novel
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Lunch/Pause déjeuner
May 13th 14h, Room/salle B 42
Detective fiction and cultural studies (Panel F 2)/ Roman policier et
multiculturalisme (Atelier F2)
Chair / Présidence: Shanna Lino
Malgorzata Janerka (Warsaw University): Cui Prodest? Discourse and Power in the
Contemporary Spanish Novel
David Fraser (University of Nottingham): Polarcauste: Law, Justice and the Shoah
in French Detective Fiction
Isabelle Roblin (Université du Littoral ? Côte d'Opale): Peter Tremayne's
'Celtic Mysteries : Sister Fidelma or the Irish Exception
Michael Berkowitz (University College London): Rootless Cosmopolitans: The New
York Jewish Detectives of Jérôme Charyn and Reggie Nadelson
Kitty Millet (San Francisco State University): The Jewish Detective in
Comparative Perspective
May 13th 14h, Room/salle B 18
Detective fiction, gender studies and minority groups (Panel B 2)/ Roman
policier, études féministes et groupes minoritaires (Atelier B2)
Chair / Présidence: Sharon Walker
Marcie D. Rinka (University of San Diego) : Science, Reason and the Social
Control of Women in Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg's La bolsa de huesos
Gwendolyn Pough (Syracuse University): “On Any Street, Any Street Corner”: The
City, Sexuality and Black Womanhood in the Mystery Novels of Grace Edwards and
Valerie Wilson Wesley
Pamela Monaco (University of Maryland University College): So Who's the Criminal
Here? : Identity and the Minority Detective
Andrew Mangham (University of Sheffield): The Interdisciplinary Roots of
Detection Fiction
Linda Martz (American University of Paris): Suffragette Fictions: The
Reconstruction of Militant Identity in the Novels of Gillian Linscott
May 13th 14h, Room/salle B 01
Detective fiction and sociology, philosophy, religion and psychoanalysis (Panel
E)/ Roman policier, philosophie et psychanalyse (Atelier E)
Chair / Présidence: Anita Higgie
François-Bernard Tremblay (Université de Québec) : Sous l'emprise du père : Le
polar, une étude générique
Nathalie Delgendre (Institut Catholique de Paris): The Katsina cult in Tony
Hillerman's detective novels, an anthropological perspective
Mary C. Rawlinson (Stony Brook University ? New York) : Impossible Agencies :
Detective Fiction as a Critique of Moral Philosophy
Suzanne Bray (Université Catholique de Lille) : A New Generation of Anglican
Detective Fiction
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Tea break/Pause café
May 13th 17h, Room/salle B18
Debate/débat
Anglo-saxon detective fiction: John Harvey and Jake Lamar (moderator: Delphine
Cingal)/ Le roman policier anglo-saxon: John Harvey et Jake Lamar (débat animé
par Delphine Cingal)
Evening : Conference dinner
Soir: banquet de colloque
May 14th 9h, Room/sale B 42
Detective fiction and postcolonial studies (Panel C)/ Le roman policier et les
études postcoloniales (Atelier C)
Chair / Présidence: Heather Brady
Christine Matzke (Humboldt University ? Berlin): “A good woman in a good
country”: Alexander McCall Smith's Mma Ramotswe Novels as a case of Postcolonial
Nostalgia
Suchitra Mathur (Indian Institute of Technology - Kanpur): Holmes Reincarnated:
A Study in Postcolonial Possibilities
Rhona Hammond (Open University ? UK): A Caribbean Detective in London and New
York: Mike Phillips and the Idea of Community in the Sammy Dean Novels
Colette Guldimann (Roehampton University ? London): Truth and Reconciliation? :
Black Detectives and Apartheid in South Africa
Nanette Fornabai (University of California ? Irvine): Uncovering the Facts of
Blackness: National Identity in the Detective Fiction of Moussa Konaté
May 14th 9h, Room/salle B 18
Detective fiction, gender studies and minority groups (Panel B 3)/ Roman
policier, études féministes et groupes minoritaires (Atelier B 3)
Chair / Présidence: Aimable Twagilimana
Shanna Lino (University of Toronto): From the Media to the Detective Novel: The
Crisis of Genre in the Representation of the North African Immigrant in Galvez
en la frontera by Jorge M. Reverte
Eve Dunbar (Vassar College): Police(d) Men: Chester Himes and Harlem
Maria Ng (University of Lethbridge ? Canada): Women at Work: Detective Wives as
Professional Women in the Fiction of Margery Allingham and Ngaio Marsh in the
1930s
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May 14th 11h30, Room/salle B 18
Detective fiction and geography/landscape (Panel A)/ Roman policier, géographie
et paysage (Atelier A)
Chair / Présidence: Nathalie Delgendre
Harry Vandervlist (University of Calgary): Tourist traps: Landscape, tourism and
cross-border politics in recent Canadian crime fiction by Natalee Caple and Mark
Sinnet
Heather Brady (Monmouth College ? Illinois) : The Cutting Edges of Marseille :
The Unfolding Mysteries of Jean-Claude Izzo's Calanques
Sophie Lechauguette (Université Bordeaux I): From Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of
Earthly Delights to Harry Bosch's Los Angeles
May 14th 9h, Room/salle B 01
Detective fiction and genre, text and intertexuality (Panel G 3)/ Roman policier
et genre, texte et intertextualité (Atelier G 3)
Chair / Présidence:Linda Martz
Séverine Drevet (Université Grenoble II): Voyage au coeur du polar français:
enjeux, valeurs et construction d'un groupe
Tanya Tromble (Université de Provence): Les interrelations de genre policier et
du grotesque dans l'oeuvre de Joyce Carol Oates
Emily Barker (University of Essex) : Communicating Modernity : The Detective
Fiction of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler
Terry Austrin (University of Canterbury ? New Zealand) and John Farnsworth
(University of Otago ? New Zealand): Genre, ethnography and representation:
Translating the work of detection into detective fiction
Shannon Wells-Lassagne (Université de Bretagne Sud) : Making Sense of the Blitz
: Detecting Genre in Graham Greene's The Ministry of Fear
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Lunch/dejeuner
May 14th Afternoon/après midi
Free time ? optional visit