Origins and legacies of Marcel Duhamel's Serie noire / / by Alistair Rolls, Clara Sitbon, Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan.

• Superior document: Approaches to Translation Studies, Volume 46
• VerfasserIn: Rolls, Alistair,; Vuaille-Barcan, Marie-Laure, 1962-; Sitbon, Clara,
• TeilnehmendeR: Vuaille-Barcan, Marie-Laure, 1962-; Sitbon, Clara,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill Rodopi,, 2018.; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Approaches to translation studies ; Volume 46.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 pages).
• Other title: Front Matter --; Contents /; Marcel Duhamel’s Translations and the Série Noire: Myths and Received Wisdom /; Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire: The Origins of a Noir Skopos /; Peter Cheyney: The Man Who Was Dangerous /; James Hadley Chase, Miss Blandish and the Hidden Face of the Série Noire /; Vernon Sullivan, Forever on the Sidelines of the Série Noire /; Jim Thompson and the Lost Souls of the Série Noire /; Douglas Kennedy, the Man for Whom Crime Paid /; Where to from Here for Série Noire Studies? /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004359001
• ISSN: 0169-0523
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Alistair Rolls, Clara Sitbon, Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan.

In Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel’s Série Noire Alistair Rolls, Clara Sitbon and Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan counter the myths and received wisdom that are typically associated with this iconic French crime fiction series, namely: that it was born in Paris on a tide of postwar euphoria; that it initially consisted of translations of American hard-boiled classics by the likes of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler; and that the translations were rushed and rather approximate. Instead, an alternative vision of Duhamel’s translation practice is proposed, one based on a French tradition of auto-, or “original”, translation of “ostensibly” American crime fiction, and one that appropriates the source text in order to create an allegory of the target culture.