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Mystère-Magazine : un objet patrimonial

Belphégor
This article discusses the heritage value of Mystère-Magazine (1948-1976), a special-interest magazine on crime fiction, from a dual perspective. On the one hand, it examines the attempts at patrimonialisation made by Mystère-Magazine, which from the ...
Annabelle Marion
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Entre tropisme anglo-américain et affirmation nationale : la version française d’Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine dans l’après-guerre

MediAzioni
This article examines the processes of translation, adaptation and linguistic and cultural appropriation at work in the dual field of crime fiction and the magazine press, drawing on the example of Mystère-Magazine, the French version of Ellery Queen’s ...
Annabelle Marion
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Forensic Fiction and the Normalization of Surveillance

Nordicom Review, 2014
This essay investigates forensic fiction as a trend in televised crime fiction and argues that this trend or subgenre is particularly interesting if we are to understand how surveillance is portrayed in contemporary society.
Hausken Liv
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The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
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Sémiotique judiciaire : crime et signe

Cahiers de Narratologie, 2019
The science of crime, or forensic science, crystallized at around the same time as gothic and detective literature in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
Marcel Danesi
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Crime fiction

, 2018
Seago, K., Hopkinson, A.
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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Financial Crime in Crime Fiction in Socialist Poland

Studia Historiae Oeconomicae, 2017
Financial crime was one of the recurring themes in crime stories written in the period of socialist Poland. The writer who first undertook this subject was Leopold Tyrmand in his book “The Man with the White Eyes” (1955). The publication of this book is
Dorota Skotarczak
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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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