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Social conflict in the contemporary French roman noir (2015)
Journal Article
Kimyongür, A. (2015). Social conflict in the contemporary French roman noir. Australian journal of crime fiction, 1(1),

Conflict is by definition at the heart of the crime novel: most evidently in the usually violent conflict between victim and perpetrator but also in a more abstract, though equally important, way in the conflict between the perpetrator and the social... Read More about Social conflict in the contemporary French roman noir.

Crime in popular fiction: Remembering the Algerian War of Independence in contemporary French crime fiction (2014)
Journal Article
Kimyongür, A. (2014). Crime in popular fiction: Remembering the Algerian War of Independence in contemporary French crime fiction. The Australasian journal of popular culture, 3(1), 33-44. https://doi.org/10.1386/ajpc.3.1.33_1

Critics have evoked parallels between the French experience of Vichy during World War II and the Algerian War of Independence, in terms of their intensely divisive nature and the difficulty the French have had, and continue to have, in acknowledging... Read More about Crime in popular fiction: Remembering the Algerian War of Independence in contemporary French crime fiction.

Dominique Manotti and the roman noir (2012)
Journal Article
Kimyongür, A. (2013). Dominique Manotti and the roman noir. Contemporary Women's Writing, 7(3), 235-252. https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vps012

Dominique Manotti's crime fiction novels have as their setting a variety of contemporary political and economic issues, a deliberate choice for an author who sees her work not as traditional detective novels, where order is reestablished upon the res... Read More about Dominique Manotti and the roman noir.

‘The beast never dies’: Maurice Gouiran and the uses of war memory (2011)
Journal Article
Kimyongür, A. (2011). ‘The beast never dies’: Maurice Gouiran and the uses of war memory. Journal of War and Culture Studies, 4(3), 371-381. https://doi.org/10.1386/jwcs.4.3.371_1

This article proposes a study of contemporary crime writer Maurice Gouiran who, between 2001 and 2010, published a series of detective novels in which the recovery of memory plays a key role. While many of the novels are set in present-day Marseilles... Read More about ‘The beast never dies’: Maurice Gouiran and the uses of war memory.