Curiosity and the desire to grasp the specificity of an abundantly read African American genre born as the 20th century was beginning are the research intentions that inspire this volume. Indeed, only recently has African-American detective fiction drawn the attention of scholars in spite of its very diverse blossoming since the 1960s. Diverse, because it has moved out of its birth place, East coast cities, and because female novelists have contributed their own production. At the heart of this popular genre, as novelists BarbaraNeely, Paula Woods and Gar Haywood tell us, is black existence: black memory, black living places and the human environments that build the individual - hence a détour to the French Caribbean.

CRAFT N° 2, 2005

Alice Mills Professeur d'anglais chercheur invité à l'Université de Harvard.Son travail sur la littérature africaine américaine est publié en France, aux USA et en Inde. Centré sur des photographies inédites des GIs noirs prises en 1944, en Normandie, et le souvenir chaleureux que les habitants ont gardé d'eux, ce livre nuance de façon positive, voire contradictoire, les rapports militaires américains de l'époque basés sur l'aspect uniformément tragique des relations entre Normand(e)s et soldats noirs. Le livre est franco-anglais.

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