Vernon Sullivan's alter ego interpretation

Title: Vernon Sullivan's alter ego interpretation
Creator: Rolls, Alistair
Relation: French Cultural Studies Vol. 27, Issue 4, p. 335-347
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957155816660681
Publisher: Sage
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2016
Description: This article takes as its point of departure a number of commonly assumed ideas, or idées reçues, that have, in combination, condemned Vernon Sullivan's novel J'irai cracher sur vos tombes to the role of crime fiction parody. In order to dispel such myths as the Série Noire's unproblematic use of translation to usher American crime novels into a France craving Americana after the end of the Second World War, this article analyses Sullivan's novel in the light of Ross Chambers' model of alter ego interpretation. In this way, what has been construed as parody can be reconceived as literary, and Boris Vian's alter ego a writer of serious allegory, not of the United States and its race relations issues, but of France, its post-Liberation literary canon and its relationship to its own national Other.
Subject: Ross Chambers; crime fiction; J'irai cracher sur vos tombes; Série Noire; Vernon Sullivan; Boris Vian
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1329402
Identifier: uon:26152
Identifier: ISSN:0957-1558
Language: eng
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