conference in Paris, France

Institut Catholique de Paris
21 rue d’Assas 75006 Paris
Mo Rennes ou Saint Sulpice ? entrée 10 euro

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 1
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 1
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: hot on the heels of
postcolonial 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 Wheeler
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



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: Linda Martz
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
Linda Martz (American University of Paris/Institut Catholique de Paris):
Suffragette Fictions: The Reconstruction of Militant Identity in the Novels of
Gillian Linscott

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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:Anita Higgie
Séverine Drevet (Université Grenoble II): Voyage au coeur du polar français:
enjeux, valeurs et construction d’un groupe
Tanya Tromble (Université de Provence): The Interworkings of Detective Fiction
and the Grotesque Aesthetic in the Work of 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