Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Barman, Debayan Deb

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction brings together three strains of detective fiction: British, American, and Bengal. The import of detective fiction from Britain has influenced generations of writers of Bengali detective fiction. In this anthology of critical essays by scholars on detective fiction, we have divided the contents into three groups. First, there are essays on classic British detective fiction, with essays on Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, P.D.James, Kate Atkinson, and Margery Allingham. The second section is on American hard-boiled fiction with essays on Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. The third section is on Bengali detective fiction with essays on Hemendra Kumar Roy, Saradindu Bandyopadhay and Satyajit Ray. Together, these essays bring three strains of detective fiction into conversation to show the gradual postcolonial attempt of Bengali detective fiction to outgrow colonial influences and create an original and organic tradition of regional and vernacular detective fiction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781793649584
• Artikelnr.: 63324609

Autorenporträt

Debayan Deb Barman is assistant professor at THLH Mahavidyalay University of Burdwan.

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