Deux articles de Fantasy Urbaine

[jerome]

Voici deux articles en anglais sur la fantasy urbaine :

- Urban Fantasy as Genre (or, more than just vamps and sex)

- The new urban fantasy. Same as the old urban fantasy?

Voici le début de ce dernier :
"Let’s start with the premise that there are two kinds of urban fantasy. I’ll call them stylistic urban fantasy and contextual urban fantasy. You’ve read the stylistic kind — or if you haven’t, WTH are you doing here on Jeff’s blog? Neil Gaiman (e.g., Neverwhere) and China Mieville (e.g., The City and the City) fall into this category as well. This was the first stuff to be overtly called “urban fantasy” as a literary movement, as far as I can tell (though fantasies set in cities have been written for literally centuries).

You might’ve read the contextual kind too, which is generally called urban fantasy because it takes place in a city or its exurbs, and involves fantasy creatures like werewolves and demons. But this kind of UF, as exemplified by Laurell K. Hamilton (e.g., the Anita Blake vampire hunter series), Patricia Briggs (e.g., the Mercy Thompson series), and Marjorie Liu (e.g., the Dirk & Steele series), bears about as much resemblance to the earlier form of urban fantasy as apples do to… well, no, oranges are both fruit. Let’s range a bit further afield. Bean pies? Yeah, that’ll do. Apples and fucking bean pies. (I love me some bean pies, by the way.)"