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Abstracts
Abstract
The Quais du polar book festival in Lyon is more than a site of commerce. Instead, the category of the polar, which brings together the mystery and roman noir, reveals the potential to destabilize literary hierarchies, foreground translation, and transform the role of place in a globalized genre. Using the insights of Lawrence Venuti, Benoît Tadié and Luc Boltanski, this essay examines how, within the polar category and in the context of the festival, foreignizing translations may upend linguistic and cultural hierarchies and transform genre categories. The communal and local experience of festivals events, its rewriting of southern American authors, and its reframing of the role of readers and translators all reveal the transformative potential of the polar and its cultural reception.
Keywords:
- Genre fiction,
- mystery,
- translation,
- crime novel,
- Southern fiction
Résumé
Le festival littéraire Quais du polar à Lyon n’est pas seulement un lieu de commerce. Plutôt, la catégorie du polar, qui unit le récit policier et le roman noir, a la capacité de déstabiliser les hiérarchies, de mettre en avant l’acte de traduction et de transformer le rôle de l’espace local dans le contexte d’un genre globalisé. Prenant comme point de départ certaines idées de Lawrence Venuti, Benoît Tadié et Luc Boltanski, le présent article explore, dans la catégorie du polar et dans le contexte du festival, le dépaysement par la traduction, et sa capacité de renverser des hiérarchies linguistiques et culturelles, et de transformer des catégories littéraires. L’aspect collectif et local des activités du festival, sa réinscription d’écrivains du sud des États-Unis dans le cadre du polar, et sa valorisation du rôle du lecteur et du traducteur font partie du pouvoir transformateur du polar et de sa réception culturelle.
Mots-clés :
- Littérature de genre,
- polar,
- traduction,
- récit criminel,
- littérature du sud des États-Unis
Appendices
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