Ethno-polar et ethno-pillard, ou les voleurs de temps

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Réalismes déclinistes du polar français contemporain : Nicolas Mathieu, Colin Niel, Antonin Varenne

“…According to Naudillon (2006, 13), the expression ethnopolar was first used in France in 1992. The term also refers to the father of the subgenre, the American writer Tony Hillerman, who sets his novels within the Navajo country of the "Four Corners" (Delanoë 2009) and whose two main investigators, Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, belong to the Navajo tribal police force. In this sense, Niel's crime novels also belong to the ethnopolar genre, since Anato and Blakaman are both indigenous investigators from French Guiana, but also because Niel's literary ambition is to explore every inch of Guianese society and unveil all the community's secrets.…”