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„The frontiers of the Roman Empire, over 5000 km long, stretch from the Atlantic coast of Scotland, along the Rhine and the Danube, also enclose the Banat region and Transylvania, then going down along the Oriental Carpathians to the Black Sea; from the southern coast of the Black Sea they continue towards the Near East until the Red Sea; then, in North Africa, they line the edge of the Sahara desert until the Atlantic coast of Morocco. Over this entire area, visible traces of fortifications, roads and settlements are still preserved, but numerous monuments still lay hidden underneath the earth. Despite the fact that the Roman frontiers crossed regions with different relief and climate, they constitute a whole in that they were designed to protect Roman territories. The research of these monuments and the preservation policy regarding them was and is unequal in the various presentday states on whose territory traces of the Roman frontier are to be found. Consequently, in the ‘80s of the 20th century, the idea of globally protecting the Roman frontiers, viewed as a unitary monument, was met. In 1987, Hadrian’s Wall in United Kingdom was declared a UNESCO monument. It was followed in 2005 by the German-Raetian sector, on which occasion the UNESCO committee decided to set up the ‘Frontiers of the Roman Empire’ site. (...)

This project through its complexity generated an interdisciplinary approach of the proposed subject stimulating such future attempts in the archaeological research field. By using the latest technical methods of non-destructive investigation the project did not damage the stratigraphy of the archaeological site obtaining instead a high amount of data otherwise time consuming judging from the archaeological excavations perspective contributing also to the preservation of the cultural heritage.” - Introduction

“Starting with the early 1970s Fântânele (Bistrița-Năsăud County) has been a well-known site in the archaeological literature referring to the Migration Period and Early Middle Ages in Transylvania. Although the excavations carried out on the hill called Dealul Popii or Dâmbul Popii by the research team lead by Ion Horaţiu Crişan have never been published exhaustively, the site was included in several synthesis works on the topic of the archaeological material from Transylvania belonging to the Migration Period, respectively to the 6th–7th centuries. The main goal of the present volume is to fill this gap by publishing all the known data regarding the mentioned discoveries based on the original documentation (written and drawn record) on one hand, and on the grave-goods identified with a few exceptions in the Institute of Archaeology and Art History, Cluj-Napoca, on the other hand.” (Foreword)

Sommaire

Caius Dobrescu, Noir, Eastern Europe, and the Global Imaginary

East European Noir – General and Particular

Caius Dobrescu, Exploring/Inventing East-European Noir. An Attempt to Modelling Historical Transformation

Doru Pop, The Socialist Boy Detectives and The Cold Wars of Childhood

Katre Talviste, The Curious Case of Juhan Paju and a Fortunate Choice of Pop Lit over Poetry

Primož Mlačnik, From Minor Literature to Neoliberal Noir: The Detective Novels of Sergej Verč

Marcela Poučová, « Accepter et pardonner, c’est se réconcilier avec soi-même ». l’Histoire tchèque du XXe siècle vue par le roman policier

Radu Toderici, Late Modernist Noirs: Béla Tarr’s Damnation/ Kárhozat and György Fehér’s Passion/ Szenvedély

Gender & Noir

Amalia Mărășescu, Female Detectives in Romanian Literature: Vitoria Lipan and Minerva Tutovan

Roxana Eichel, Intersecting Inequalities in Romanian Crime Series Shadows (HBO). Expressions of Identity between Authenticity, Stereotypes and “Eastploitation”

Andrada Fătu-Tutoveanu, Death Becomes Her. Implicit Religion, Relics, Myth-Making and the Witch Complex in Visual Representations of Women in Film Noir. A Case Study

East Seen From the West

Paul Bleton, Lu a l’Ouest, le crime de l’Est a du lest

Ioana Andrea Diaconu, Creating and Destroying Prejudices. Romanian Characters in German Television Thrillers Beginning with the Millennium

Sándor Kálai, Europa Blues (L’Europe de l’Est des romans policiers scandinaves)

Noir sans frontiers: Beyond Genre and Geography

Marius-Mircea Crișan & Carol Senf, The Mysteries of the Post-Communist Vampire: Detective Features in the Novel Nepotul lui Dracula by Alexandru Mușina

Alex Văsieș, Narrative Devices in Motion: From Genre Fiction to Mainstream Fiction in Florin Chirculescu’s Prose

Maria Barbu, Virtual Dystopias: Westworld and Technology’s Potential to Save or Enslave the World

Carmen Borbély, Noir Affect in Lauren Beukes’s Zoo City

Ruxandra Cesereanu, The Savage Detectivism of Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction

Călina Părău, Residues and Presents in Contemporary Shrinking Temporalities

Les imaginaires du féminin/masculin dans la littérature

Najate Nerci, Introduction

Corin Braga, The New Amazons: Second-Wave Feminist Dystopias Assunção Pesché Luísa, Les héroïnes (fatales) brésiliennes : archétypes et métamorphoses

Gérard Peylet, Le masculin et le féminin dans le roman sandien : Vers un dépassement de la dualité

Crina-Magdalena Zărnescu, Sous le masque du masculin ? Approche poétique du roman Mémoires d’Hadrien de Marguerite Yourcenar

Souad Atoui-Labidi, Réinvention et détournement du féminin ou Schéhérazade au masculin dans ZABOR ou les psaumes de Kamel Daoud

Eylül-Sabo-Andrada Yunusoglu, “The Harem Within”: The Complexity of Female Identity in Elif Shafak’s Black Milk

Fatema-Ezzahra Taznout, Yasmine Chami, une écriture de l’intranquilité

Hichem Ismaïl, L’antagonisme du féminin et du masculin dans Salammbô de Flaubert

Laura T. Ilea, La littérature féminine en infrarouge. Au-delà du nihilisme