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Roads, Landscapes and Environments The Spaces of the African Thriller

  • Publication type: Journal article
  • Journal: La Revue des lettres modernes
    2023 – 2
    . Routes et dé-routes dans les fictions francophones subsahariennes
  • Author: Togola (Adama)
  • Abstract: The motifs of roads, landscapes and environments are omnipresent in contemporary detective fiction, such as L’Archer bassari by Modibo S Keita and L’Empreinte du renard by Moussa Konaté. They evoke movements and transform fiction into a hermeneutic quest : the search for truth is then presented as a journey, a movement of body and soul that the detective undertakes on dangerous, chaotic roads and landscapes devastated by drought.
  • Pages: 195 to 212
  • Journal: Journal of Modern Literature
  • Series: Littératures francophones au présent, n° 2
  • CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
  • EAN: 9782406142027
  • ISBN: 978-2-406-14202-7
  • ISSN: 0035-2136
  • DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-14202-7.p.0195
  • Publisher: Classiques Garnier
  • Online publication: 01-25-2023
  • Periodicity: Monthly
  • Language: French
  • Keyword: polar, novel of the road, landscapes, environments, index paradigm.