Critical essays on English and Bengali detective fiction /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Deb Barman, Debayan (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books [2022].
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505 0 |a Part 1. British detective fiction -- From Secrecy to Knowledge: Detection and Literary Detectives in Dickens / Kyamalia Bairagya -- Heroine as Detective: Wilkie Collins's The Dead Secret / Madhumita Biswas -- 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 -- Detection and Drawings: Sidney Paget's illustrations from Doyle's Return of Sherlock Holmes / Deepali Yadav -- Feminization of the Science of Detection: Agatha Christie's Unusual Detective Partners / Amy Lee -- Locating The Murder of Roger Ackroyd in the tradition of Detective Fictions / Sourav Banerjee -- A Place for Campion, Campion in his Place: Reading Margery Allingham's Novels / Jonathan Wilkins -- Following Cordelia Gray: Gender 'Suitability' and Detective Fiction / Medha Bhadra Chowdhury -- Time Past and Time Present: Reading Kate Atkinson's Novels / Purnima Chakraborti -- P.D. James: Narratives Bubbling to the Surface / Anne K. B. Erickson -- Interrogating the Agency of the 'Partner in Crime': The Sidekick as the Reader in Crime Fiction / Barnali Saha -- Part 2. American hard-boiled fiction -- Dashiell Hammett: A Pinkerton Detective's Fictional Sleuths / Robert McParland -- Conflict, Desire and the City: Exploring Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep / Neepa Sarkar -- Part 3. Bengali detective fiction -- Assertive Heroes and Male Heterotopia: Revisiting Select Detective Fiction of Hemendra Kumar Roy / Stella Chitralekha Biswas -- Nativizing Holmesian Tradition of Detective: A Reading of Select Stories of Byomkesh Bakshi and Feluda / Abhinaba Chatterjee -- The Purloined Artefacts: Tracing Repetition Automatism in Satyajit Ray's 'Joy Baba Felunath' and 'Jahangirer Swarnamudra', Ipsita Chakrabarty and Soham Roy -- Detectives and father figures: A study of the metamorphosis of the Indian father figure with Ray's 'Feluda' / Gouri Parvathy V -- The Glocalization of Detective Fiction by Satyajit Ray / Ananya Chatterjee and Nisarga Bhattacharjee -- Part 4. Detective films -- Byomkesh Breaks Bad: Unravelling the Hidden Desires in Dibakar Banerjee's Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! / Kaustav Mukherjee -- Serial Detectives and Reverse Forensics: Cases of Literary and Filmic Red Dragon / Sheng-mei Ma. 
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650 0 |a Detective and mystery stories, Bengali  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Detective and mystery stories, American  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Detective and mystery films  |x History and criticism. 
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