Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction

Herausgeber: Barman, Debayan Deb

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Produktbeschreibung

The book brings together three strains of detective fiction: British, American, and Bengal. The essays explore varied aspects of detective fiction, offering new avenues of critical thought from a Postcolonial perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 568g
• ISBN-13: 9781793649577
• ISBN-10: 179364957X
• Artikelnr.: 62477659

Autorenporträt

Edited by Debayan Deb Barman - Foreword by Phil Fitzsimmons - Contributions by Kyamalia Bairagya; Sourav Banerjee; Debayan Deb Barman; Nisarga Bhattacharjee; Madhumita Biswas; Stella Chitralekha Biswas; Ipsita Chakrabarty; Purnima Chakraborti; Abhinaba Ch

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Phil Fitzsimmons
Acknowledgements
Introduction, Debayan Deb Barman
Part 1: BRITISH DETECTIVE FICTION
Chapter 1: From Secrecy to Knowledge: Detection and Literary Detectives in
Dickens, Kyamalia Bairagya
Chapter 2: Heroine as Detective: Wilkie Collins's The Dead Secret,
Madhumita Biswas
Chapter 3: Women as Victims of Abuse in Crime Fiction: Representations of
Misogyny in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles and A Study
in Scarlet, Karabi Barman
Chapter 4: Detection and Drawings: Sidney Paget's Illustrations from
Doyle's Return of Sherlock Holmes, Deepali Yadav
Chapter 5: Feminization of the Science of Detection: Agatha Christie's
Unusual Detective-Partners, Amy Lee
Chapter 6: Locating The Murder of Roger Ackroyd in the tradition of
Detective Fictions, Sourav Banerjee
Chapter 7: A Place for Campion, Campion in his Place: Reading Margery
Allingham's Novels, Jonathan Wilkins
Chapter 8: Following Cordelia Gray: Gender 'Suitability' and Detective
Fiction, Medha Bhadra Chowdhury
Chapter 9: Time Past and Time Present: Reading Kate Atkinson's Novels,
Purnima Chakraborti
Chapter 10: P. D. James: Narratives Bubbling to the Surface, Anne K. B.
Erickson
Chapter 11: Interrogating the Agency of the 'Partner in Crime': The
Sidekick as the Reader in Crime Fiction, Barnali Saha
Part 2: AMERICAN HARD-BOILED FICTION
Chapter 12: Dashiell Hammett: A Pinkerton Detective's Fictional Sleuths,
Robert McParland
Chapter 13: Conflict, Desire and the City: Exploring Raymond Chandler's The
Big Sleep, Neepa Sarkar
Part 3: BENGALI DETECTIVE FICTION
Chapter 14: Assertive Heroes and Male Heterotopia: Revisiting Select
Detective Fiction of Hemendra Kumar Roy, Stella Chitralekha Biswas
Chapter 15: Nativizing Holmesian Tradition of Detective: A Reading of
Select Stories of Byomkesh Bakshi and Feluda, Abhinaba Chatterjee
Chapter 16: The Purloined Artefacts: Tracing Repetition Automatism in
Satyajit Ray's "Joy Baba Felunath" and "Jahangirer Swarnamudra", Ipsita
Chakrabarty and Soham Roy
Chapter 17: Detectives and father figures: A study of the metamorphosis of
the Indian father figure with Ray's 'Feluda', Gouri Parvathy V
Chapter 18: The Glocalization of Detective Fiction by Satyajit Ray, Ananya
Chatterjee and Nisarga Bhattacharjee
Part 4: DETECTIVE FILMS
Chapter 19: Byomkesh Breaks Bad: Unravelling the Hidden Desires in Dibakar
Banerjee's Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!, Kaustav Mukherjee
Chapter 20: Serial Detectives and Reverse Forensics: Cases of Literary and
Filmic Red Dragon, Sheng-mei Ma